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Three people have been injured in a shooting at a bar in New York City, police said.
The shooting occurred inside Just Lorraine's Place bar on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood in the early hours of Sunday, a spokesperson for the New York Police Department (NYPD) told Newsweek.
Three men, aged 21, 39 and 46, were each shot in the leg, the spokesperson said. All three were transported to area hospitals and are in stable condition.
No arrests have been made in connection with the shooting. The suspect fled the scene, the NYPD spokesperson said. He did not have any information or a description of the gunman.
ABC7 reported that investigators found shell casings near the door of the bar.
No other information about the suspect or the circumstances of the shooting was immediately available.
The investigation is ongoing.
The shooting occurred after another in a neighborhood in San Diego left one person dead and another in hospital.
They come amid renewed calls for stricter gun laws after a woman was killed and 22 people were injured in a mass shooting at the end of Wednesday's parade to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl win in Kansas City. The shooting occurred on the sixth anniversary of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stonemason Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in which14 students and three staff members were killed.
Gun violence continues to claim lives at a high rate in the United States. More than 4,800 people have died in shootings so far in 2024, at least 2,100 of them in homicides or accidental incidents, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
President Joe Biden noted on Wednesday that there had been more mass shootings in 2024 "than there have been days in the year."
For the joy of the parade to be turned into tragedy "cuts deep in the American soul," the president said in a statement.
He called on people to press Congress to ban assault weapons, to limit high-capacity gun magazines, strengthen background checks and "keep guns out of the hands of those who have no business owning them or handling them."
He added that the shooting "should move us, shock us, shame us into acting. What are we waiting for?" he said. "What else do we need to see? How many more families need to be torn apart? It is time to act."
Update 2/18/24, 9:50 a.m. ET: This article has been updated to add more information.
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