A 40-year-old Philadelphia man was charged Wednesday with killing five people in one of several shooting rampages across the nation that killed at least 15 people, injured more than 60 and cast a grim pall over Fourth of July festivities.
Kimbrady Carriker was ordered held without bail in connection with the shootings Monday night. Authorities say Carriker was armed with an assault rifle and a handgun and wore a bulletproof vest when he fatally shot one man at the man’s home in the Kingsessing section of Southwest Philadelphia. The suspect then began shooting at people “seemingly at random” on neighborhood streets before he was cornered in an alley and surrendered, police said.
The shooting was the nation’s 29th mass killing in 2023, according to a database maintained by USA TODAY, The Associated Press and Northeastern University. It’s the most on record for this time of year.
“I am frustrated and outraged that mass shootings like this continue to happen in communities across the United States,” Mayor Jim Kenney said Tuesday. “This country needs to reexamine its conscience and find out how to get guns out of dangerous people’s hands.”
Other developments:
∎ Four people were killed and seven wounded in a shooting late Tuesday at a Fourth of July block party in Shreveport, Louisiana, authorities said. No arrests have been made, and Police Sgt. Angie Willhite said it was difficult to get details about what happened from people who were there. “We’re not getting a lot of cooperation,” Willhite said.
∎ Nine people were wounded, including two juveniles, in a shooting spree early Wednesday at a July Fourth celebration in Washington, D.C., said police, who called the shooting targeted and coming from a dark SUV seen driving through the neighborhood.
∎ One person was killed and six wounded in a shooting at a Fourth of July block party in Salisbury, Maryland.
∎ Three people were killed and eight wounded Monday night in Fort Worth, Texas, when “unknown males” began…
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