USA: Two injured in Shooting at a Nebraska Mall

At least two people were injured this Saturday, one of them in serious condition, in a shooting at a shopping center in Omaha, in the state of Nebraska (USA), reported the authorities.

The Omaha Police Department said on its Twitter account that the event took place in Westroads Mall and that “the suspects” fled, without offering further details on who was responsible for the attack.

In statements to the press, the spokesman for the local police, Neal Bonacci, explained that the surveillance cameras of the shopping center captured two suspects fleeing the place.

Investigators are now conducting inquiries to find out their identities and capture them.

Local media stressed that the incident occurred at around 1:15 pm local time (6.15pm GMT).

This event is recorded after at least eight people lost their lives on Thursday night after an armed man opened fire indiscriminately at a warehouse of the postal services company FedEX in Indianapolis (Indiana), before committing suicide of a shot.

Yesterday, Friday, many Democrats raised their voices to urge the Senate to pass new legislation.

Specifically, they were referring to a proposal that has already received the green light from the Lower House and that would allow expanding the verification of the criminal records of buyers in transactions between individuals.

The president of the country himself, Joe Biden, demanded that the Senate in a statement reinforce the control of firearms and stop “accepting” a type of violence that “has become something too normal” and causes 106 fatalities to the day in USA

“Armed violence is an epidemic in the United States, but we must not accept it, we must act,” he urged.

It is practically impossible for legislative measures for greater control of this type of weapon to go through in the Senate, where the Democrats – the president’s party – have such a narrow majority that they would need to convince at least 10 Republicans to pass them.