
A 27-year-old man was killed and 24 other people were shot when gunfire erupted during an Ohio birthday party
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One person was killed and 24 others were wounded in a mass shooting early Sunday morning in Akron, Ohio, according to city officials.
A 27-year-old man was killed and 24 other people were shot after gunfire erupted early Sunday morning in Akron, Ohio, during what a police official said was a big birthday party. Officers responded to 911 calls shortly after midnight, reporting shots fired and multiple victims struck in the area of Kelly Ave. and 8th Ave., according to a statement from the city’s mayor and police chief. The shooting took place during a “large birthday party” that earlier in the night had more than 200 people in attendance, Akron Police Chief Brian Harding said in a Sunday evening news conference. In the shooting’s aftermath, authorities found the scene “littered” with spent shell casings that stretched down a whole block, the police chief said. “Based on the layout of the spent shell (casings) it appears consistent with someone driving by shooting out of car,” Harding said. “We believe that some individuals at the party may have returned fire based on physical evidence at the scene.” At least two handguns were recovered from the scene, but authorities found different shell casings from multiple kinds of firearms, Harding said.

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