US shootings leave two dead, one injured

Shooting incidents in two US states on Sunday left two people dead, including one who was shot by a security guard, authorities said.

Hector Uribe, a 22-year-old man, was shot dead by a security guard in Oakland in what appears to be the fiftieth homicide of the year that took place in an unlikely place and at unlikely time: the Coliseum flea market, at 1 p.m.

According to some witnesses, the guard interrupted Uribe during an auto break-in.

“A lot of people say, he was only looking,” said Patricia Miranda of Fremont. “He was trying to open his car and this security guard came and shot him, I think it’s unfair.”

“They didn’t have to kill him, there’s no reason for him to be dead right now,” his 16-year-old sister Jocelyn Uribe said.

In another incident in North Carolina, one person was shot dead and another was critically injured in a hotel.

Officers arrived to find a large crowd who were there for an album release party. Police said witnesses had heard an argument on the second floor and then they heard gunshots.

Raphael Currie and David Williams, the two victims, were rushed to a hospital, but police said Williams died from his wound and Currie was in critical condition.

According to one study, over 12,000 gun deaths were reported by the US media between December 14, 2012, when the Sandy Hook massacre left 20 first-grade school children and six adults dead, and December 31, 2013.

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