A new tragedy caused by firearms across the Atlantic. Four people were shot dead on Monday on a commuter train in Chicago, in the north of the United States, local police announced, reporting the arrest of a suspect.
Police, alerted by a call to emergency services early on the start of the U.S. holiday, said they found the four victims at the Forest Park station, the terminus of the Blue Line. Three were pronounced dead when emergency services arrived, and a fourth died at the hospital. "The victims were all passengers on that train," Forest Park Deputy Police Chief Christopher Chin said at a news conference.
A weapon in one in two homes. A suspect was identified through video surveillance and arrested in the morning, he added. "A weapon was found," he stressed.
The United States has a firearm mortality rate that is out of all proportion to that of other developed countries. The phenomenon is explained by the proliferation of individual weapons: one in three adults owns at least one weapon and nearly one in two American adults lives in a home where there is a weapon.
In June, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared gun violence a "public health crisis," noting that it had become the leading cause of death among American children and adolescents since 2020, ahead of car accidents.
