In Louisiana, a 31-year-old Army veteran murdered eight children, including seven of his own, in a mass shooting rampage that spanned four locations across Shreveport on Sunday. Two women were left critically injured, both of them the mothers of the murdered children. The gunman was previously arrested in 2019 and sentenced to probation for firing five bullets at a vehicle near a school where children were playing.

Meanwhile, in Iowa City, five people, including three college students, were wounded early on Sunday when a gunfight erupted near the University of Iowa campus. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 114 mass shootings in the U.S. since January 1.