CHICAGO — Two women in a home in Chicago, a police officer serving a warrant in Cleveland and an armed person making threats in Yellowstone National Park were among those killed in shootings on the Fourth of July, historically one of the nation's deadliest days of the year.Three boys, ages 8, 7 and 5, were also wounded in the shooting on Thursday in Chicago, which police say resulted from an apparent personal dispute. The women killed were 42 and 22.
Two vehicles pulled up into a neighborhood in the city’s south side and multiple people got out and fired shots at the home, Deputy Chief Don Jerome said. Multiple shell casings from both a rifle and a handgun were found at the scene, he said.was identified as Jamieson Ritter. The 27-year-old officer was part of a team dispatched to serve a man a warrant for felonious assault around 1 a.m., police Chief Dorothy Todd said, according to local news outlets.
The ranger was in stable condition at a hospital, according to the statement, which did not specify how the ranger was injured. On Wednesday evening, a 13-year-old girl was fatally shot at a mall in a Seattle suburb after a fight broke out between two groups of teenagers and one of the teens fired a handgun, police in Lynnwood, Washington, said.Police said the teens fled the scene, but later that night a 16-year-old boy suspected of firing the gun was taken to the police by his mother.around the Fourth of July a year ago left more than a dozen people dead and over 60 wounded.