Public gun violence had claimed at least 10 lives and injured dozens more across the US over the long holiday weekend
The killings and injuries took place in U.S. cities including Philadelphia; Baltimore; Wichita, Kansas; and Fort Worth, Texas.
Even before this weekend, the nation had already seen more mass killings and victims at this point in the year than in any other year since at least 2006. But Independence Day weekend has emerged as a particularly bloody holiday in the United States.
The nation has witnessed an average of five mass shootings on Independence Day over the past decade − more than on any other day of the year.