By Steve Gorman

(Reuters) – Following a spate of lethal mass shootings at a grocery store in New York, an elementary faculty in Texas and a hospital in Oklahoma got here one more burst of gun violence on Thursday that left a number of folks wounded at a cemetery in Wisconsin.

The police division in Racine, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, reported on Twitter (NYSE:) that a number of gunshots had been fired at Graceland Cemetery, leaving an unspecified variety of victims, however few further particulars got.

Milwaukee tv station TMJ4 Information, citing members of the family attending the grave-side service, mentioned 5 family of the person who was being buried on the time had been struck by gunfire, although their circumstances weren’t instantly recognized.

A person who lives throughout the road from the cemetery, Rey Brantley, instructed the TV station he was choosing his daughter up from faculty when he heard gunfire, and that his son was enjoying basketball close by and got here near being shot.

“Who of their proper thoughts would go and shoot up a funeral in broad daylight,” Brantley mentioned in an on-camera interview. “These folks had been attending a funeral.”

His son, Trey Brantley, mentioned he heard “bullets whistling previous us” and ran for canopy with others.

TMJ4 reported {that a} close by hospital was positioned beneath a safety lockdown and {that a} highschool dismissed its college students about 10 minutes later than normal, after legislation enforcement assured faculty officers it was protected to take action.

There was no phrase on whether or not any suspect had been recognized. Police urged members of the general public to help investigators by coming ahead with any video footage they could have of the incident.

The taking pictures got here a day after a gunman killed 4 folks and himself at a medical middle in Tulsa, Oklahoma. One of many victims was an orthopedic surgeon who had handled the suspect.

Nineteen faculty youngsters and two academics had been shot to demise on Could 24 throughout a siege at an elementary faculty in Uvalde, Texas, that ended when police killed the 18-year-old assailant.

And an 18-year-old avowed white supremacist, additionally armed with a semiautomatic weapon, killed 10 folks, most of them Black, at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on Could 14 in what authorities mentioned was a racially motivated assault.

The suspect within the Buffalo taking pictures, who surrendered to police, pleaded not responsible on Thursday to 25 counts in an indictment returned by a grand jury.