Family: 5 shot during funeral at Graceland Cemetery in Racine
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Source: WTMJ - Milwaukee, WI
Family: 5 shot during funeral at Graceland Cemetery in Racine
TMJ4 Web Staff
RACINE, Wis. — A suspect shot and injured five people during a funeral at Graceland Cemetery in Racine Thursday afternoon, family tells TMJ4 News. Racine police described the shooting as a "critical" incident and urged people to stay away. Police said multiple shots were fired, that there are victims but their conditions are unknown. The scene is still active and being investigated, police said.
The Draeger-Langendorf Funeral Home and Crematory confirms to TMJ4 News that a funeral during that time was for Da'Shontay L. King Sr. The worker at the funeral home said King's family members were hit. All funeral home staff are OK, they said.
Family previously identified Da'Shontay King Sr. as the man who a Racine police officer shot and killed near 12th and Schiller on March 20. Police said then that an officer attempted a traffic stop for a firearms investigation. Police said King got out of the vehicle armed with a firearm. The officer ordered the suspect to stop and comply with commands, but he refused, police said. The officer opened fire. King was pronounced dead at the scene.
Read more: https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/critical-incident-at-graceland-cemetery-large-police-presence
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Gun violence in the US surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death.
That is against the backdrop of an overall drop in mortality from all causes since 1950.
This is an "all cause" study of youth mortality from different global regions (some of which have been in armed conflict for a while) from which you might consider different trajectories:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01546-4/fulltext
Global, regional, and national mortality among young people aged 10–24 years, 1950–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
Globally, 32·7% of deaths in young people aged 10–24 years in 2019 were due to transport injuries, unintentional injuries, or interpersonal violence or conflict; 32·1% were due to communicable, nutritional, or maternal causes; 27·0% were due to non-communicable diseases; and 8·2% were due to self-harm. However, there was large variation in the leading causes of adolescent death by GBD super-region, sex, and age. In males aged 10–14 years, the most common cause of death was unintentional injury in all GBD super-regions except high income, where neoplasms were the leading cause of death, and south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, where enteric infections were the leading cause of death, and North Africa and Middle East where this was transport injuries. In males aged 15–24 years, the most common cause of death was transport injury in all GBD super-regions except Latin America and the Caribbean, where the leading cause of death was interpersonal violence and conflict, and central Europe, eastern Europe and central Asia, where the leading cause of death was self-harm (appendix 1, figures S50–S112).
So, if you are looking for a model where interpersonal violence and conflict remains the leading cause of death for a long time among young people, then you want to look at Latin America and the Caribbean.
First, all-cause mortality has been on a decline since 1950 in all regions:
Genocidal wars, like the Rwandan conflict, stick out dramatically in those graphs. Rwanda was one of the most violent places on earth during that period, and is now a place you can visit and be safer than in most US cities.
In places with sustained conditions where interpersonal violence remains, again with overall declining mortality, the leading cause of death, there is a huge difference in "what kills young men" versus "what kills young women" reflected in these two charts:
Again, looking at Latin America and the Caribbean, you can see that interpersonal violence is responsible for what looks like around 50% of deaths of young males, and only around 10% of deaths of young females.
So, maybe one consequence of the trajectory is that one winds up with more adult females than adult males, if other causes of death continue to decline.
Once that happens to a great enough extent, it could be that a lopsided female majority population enacts social control measures in which violence is more effectively controlled, and the system self-regulates. Who knows.
Score-settling at funerals is not limited to the United States.
While the rate of gun deaths in the US is outstandingly high compared to other countries of comparable wealth, there are countries with higher rates of death from gun violence. The US does not rank in the top ten.
If you mean firearm homicides generally, we don't come close to some other countries:
Also, those gun deaths in the US are not evenly distributed:
There is a dramatic difference in one's risk of gun violence between living below the Mason-Dixon Line and living above it.
