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mercuryblues

(15,767 posts)
8. Here goes.
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 08:53 PM
Apr 2025

I didn't feel like going down the rabbit hole, so early after the shooting. Will all the injuries be gunshot wounds? Who knows at this point.

But I will start...
The most commonly accepted definition of a mass shooting is 4 or more victims, shot or injured.

I read an article where a witness described this

A witness told ABC 15 what he saw on Saturday night at the scene.
https://abcnews4.com/news/crime-news/police-investigating-after-shooting-incident-on-north-ocean-blvd-in-myrtle-beach
I remember hearing gunfire shots just start going off everywhere. I remember seeing a girl fall that had been injured; I remember seeing the guy who had been shot fall to the ground," said Michael Howard, witness. "I seen blood everywhere. It was just very traumatizing.


What many people fail to realize mass shooting, mass murder, and spree killers all have different definitions. None are mutually exclusive of each other.

Mass murder is 4 or more killed in a single event.

Spree killers are murders that occur in a single event, in multiple locations. Sometimes called rampage killers.

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900 block of N Ocean Blvd Mountainguy Apr 2025 #1
"11 people injured" qualifies it as a mass shooting mercuryblues Apr 2025 #2
Injured by what? Mountainguy Apr 2025 #3
Lead. mercuryblues Apr 2025 #4
Can you support that? Mountainguy Apr 2025 #6
Here - from a local NC outlet that describes more clearly what happened BumRushDaShow Apr 2025 #7
Ok and... Mountainguy Apr 2025 #9
This was reported by the local POLICE BumRushDaShow Apr 2025 #13
Also any other injury as well Mountainguy Apr 2025 #14
Well that is something that they would obviously have to investigate BumRushDaShow Apr 2025 #15
Here goes. mercuryblues Apr 2025 #8
We're stretching mass shooting Mountainguy Apr 2025 #10
The exert I post clearly states people were shot. mercuryblues Apr 2025 #11
It doesn't Mountainguy Apr 2025 #12
When you work as a first responder, you learn very quickly: AverageOldGuy Apr 2025 #5
The other saying I always heard from my family and friends who are also first responders... OldBaldy1701E Apr 2025 #16
Unfortunately, Mr. Mayor... OldBaldy1701E Apr 2025 #17
So, how many people did the police shoot Miguelito Loveless Apr 2025 #18
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