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Halloween Shootings Leave 6 Dead, Dozens Injured Across U.S
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In Short: Separately, multiple shootings occurred in nightlife districts across the U.S., with the deadliest incident in Dallas, where four people were killed and 15 others injured in the Deep Ellum neighborhood.
Two shootings at Halloween Spirit stores in California and Michigan killed two people and left several others wounded, authorities said.
In Fairfield, California, a 31-year-old woman died and six others were injured in a shooting at a Spirit Halloween store late Friday night.
In Madison Heights, Michigan, a 21-year-old man was killed in a shooting at a Spirit Halloween store late Friday afternoon.
Separately, multiple shootings occurred in nightlife districts across the U.S., with the deadliest incident in Dallas, where four people were killed and 15 others injured in the Deep Ellum neighborhood.
In Birmingham, Alabama, one person was killed and eight others were wounded in two separate shootings near Legion Field after the 'Magic City Classic' football game.
Police in Dallas are investigating whether the three shootings in the Deep Ellum neighborhood are connected.
Fairfield Police Chief Dan Marshall said at least three of the victims in the California shooting are in critical condition.
The affected Spirit Halloween stores will remain closed until the end of the season, a spokesperson for the company told CBS News.
Police are still working to identify the suspects responsible for the shootings and are asking the public for any information or videos that could help with the investigation.
"This is still a very active crime scene. Detectives are speaking with witnesses and diligently working to identify the suspect responsible for this horrific shooting," Fairfield police said in a statement.
"We are deeply saddened by the tragic incidents that occurred at our Spirit Halloween stores. We extend our condolences to the families and individuals whose lives have been altered by these terrible events," the Spirit Halloween spokesperson said.
What this adds
The shootings in California and Michigan are believed to be targeted incidents, while the shootings in nightlife districts are not immediately connected.
Background
Germany and France are bracing for potential protests this Halloween weekend, with concerns over rising prices and youth unemployment.
What's confirmed
- "This is still a very active crime scene. Detectives are speaking with witnesses and diligently working to identify the suspect responsible for this horrific shooting," the statement said.
- Fairfield Police said Saturday that, based on preliminary information, the shooting is believed to be a targeted incident involving one suspect inside the store.
- Detectives are continuing to actively investigate, police said.
- Gunfire rang out inside Spirit Halloween, a store at the Solano Town Center in Fairfield late Friday, Fairfield police said in a statement posted on social media.
- A shooting at a Halloween Spirit in Fairfield, California, killed one female and left six others wounded, police said.
- A targeted shooting inside a Spirit Halloween store in Northern California left a pregnant woman dead and six other people wounded, police said.
- Police Chief Daniel Comeaux said police are still trying to determine if the shootings in the Deep Ellum neighborhood were related.
- Separately, police in college towns like Fayetteville, Arkansas; Birmingham, Alabama; Newark, Delaware, and Bloomington, Illinois, also reported shootings in their nightlife districts this weekend.
- Mass shootings over the Halloween weekend in nightlife districts across the U.S. left at least six people dead and dozens injured, officials said.
- The deadliest violence occurred in Dallas, where a handful of shootings in the city's Deep Ellum neighborhood, a center of music, restaurants and nightlife, killed four people and injured 15 others, police said.
- “This is a really big scene. It's spread out,” Comeaux said.
- Dallas police chief Daniel Comeaux gives updates on Deep Ellum shootings, Sunday, Nov.
What's still developing
- Fairfield is about 37 miles northeast of Sacramento.
- Constance Hages, 31, died at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds after gunfire erupted inside Spirit Halloween at Solano Town Center in Fairfield around 8:30 p.m., police said.
- Friday inside the store, which sells Halloween costumes and decor, at the Solano Town Center in Fairfield, the city police department said Saturday in a statement on Facebook.