Highland Park parade shooter was the ELEVENTH mass shooting over July 4 weekend as violence escalates across the US

THE gun rampage at a parade in Highland Park on Monday marks the eleventh mass shooting of the Fourth of July weekend. An urgent search for the gunman is still underway after six people were killed and dozens of others injured in Highland Park, Illinois. The shots rang out at a Fourth of July parade […]

THE gun rampage at a parade in Highland Park on Monday marks the eleventh mass shooting of the Fourth of July weekend.

An urgent search for the gunman is still underway after six people were killed and dozens of others injured in Highland Park, Illinois.

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Six people are dead and dozens of others are injured after a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois[/caption]

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Highland Park was the scene of the 11th mass shooting of Fourth of July weekend with six people shot on Saturday in Clinton, North Carolina[/caption]

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Authorities have yet to find the Highland Park shooter[/caption]

The shots rang out at a Fourth of July parade as a shooter used a high-powered rifle to fire from a rooftop, according to The Chicago Sun-Times.

Christopher Covelli of the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said the shooting was “very random, very intentional” while calling it “a very sad day.”

The Highland Park incident is the 11th mass shooting this Fourth of July weekend, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

The Gun Violence Archive defines mass shootings as having a minimum of four victims, either injured or killed, not including the shooter(s).

Four people were injured in Kansas City, Missouri after a mass shooting outside a concert.

Another mass shooting occurred in Sacramento, California around 2am on Monday at a nightclub.

Police said one person was killed and four others were injured.

Early Monday around 3.39am, police responded to a mass shooting in Richmond, Virginia.

Six people were shot, including four men and two women.

Two people sustained life-threatening injuries and all of them are in the hospital.

Another mass shooting happened around the same time in Chicago, Illinois.

Five people were injured in a shooting at about 12.13am on Monday, police reported.

Authorities in Mullins, South Carolina, got a call about a gunshot victim around 2am on Sunday.

Besides that victim, three other men with gunshot injuries were reported at the MUSC Marion Emergency Department.

Four people were injured in a mass shooting in Tacoma, Washington around 9pm on Sunday. None of the injuries are life-threatening.

Authorities responded to another mass shooting at 11.51pm on Sunday in Manassas, Virginia, where four men were injured.

Six people were injured at around 9.30pm on Saturday in Clinton, North Carolina. The victims ranged from 61 to 12 years old.

Two people died and four people were injured around 6.45pm on Saturday night in Haltom City, Texas.

And in Queens, New York, one person died and three others were injured after a shooter entered a mechanic shop and opened fire around 9.40pm.