Six people died and at least 40 were wounded across 19 shootings in Philadelphia over the July 4 weekend, with the Grays Ferry mass shooting, which involved automatic weapon fire and killed three, producing four arrests including a juvenile.

A gunman killed two toddler sisters and a 42-year-old man at a southwest Fort Worth fireworks gathering on July 4; a suspect faces capital murder charges.

Six people were shot dead at a mother-child welfare center in Stade, Germany on June 29 by a man who had a custody appointment at the facility that same morning.

Darlington County Sheriff's deputies and SLED are jointly investigating after a man was fatally shot at the Purple City nightclub just after 4 a.m. on June 28, with no suspects identified or arrested as of Sunday morning.

Back-to-back 7.5 and 7.2 magnitude earthquakes killed at least 1,430 people in Venezuela on June 24; with 51,000 still missing and USGS projecting deaths could surpass 100,000, US diaspora communities and humanitarian response channels face immediate pressure.

On June 23, Bradley Scott Sayer, 18, killed two patrons at the Chico, California public library after scouting the venue in advance and arriving in a Columbine reference shirt; he was arrested within four minutes.