Mass shootings kill two in Georgia, 12-year-old girl in Baltimore | Crime in the United States

Two people were killed and at least 25 others injured when a shooting broke out at a homecoming party in Vienna, Georgia, early Sunday, authorities said.

In another high-profile mass shooting in the United States over the weekend, a 12-year-old girl was shot and killed and three other people were injured after gunfire apparently erupted Saturday in a parking space at a Baltimore park, officials said.

The violence in Georgia occurred during a gathering of more than 1,000 people, local sheriff Craig Peavy told local news outlet WMAZ. Shots were fired at about 50 people in two locations about a block apart shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday, Peavy told WMAZ.

The two people killed at the scene were not immediately identified, nor were the suspects or possible motives for the shooting.

Peavy added that about 25 people were taken to hospital, up to 35 people may have been injured and that officers were monitoring the crowd at the time of the shooting.

Meanwhile, regarding the shooting in Baltimore, Police Commissioner Richard Worley said two suspects were being sought after two different types of gun shells were found at the scene of the violence near a youth football event at Leon Day Park.

“What we know is that there was some sort of argument between two cowards, and sure enough, they both opened fire on each other,” Worley said at a news conference Saturday night. “The argument most likely happened over a stupid parking spot, and they got into a fight, and the two cowards shot each other.”

Worley said the 12-year-old girl who was killed in that case was a passerby in a nearby field, who was hit when one of the shooters “fired several rounds at range.”

A 25-year-old woman who accompanied the girl was also shot. The same was true for two men, aged 23 and 28, according to police. None of the three injured victims appeared to have life-threatening injuries, police said.

The 12-year-old girl was pronounced dead at the scene and paramedics took her to hospital. The other two victims went to a nearby hospital with injuries.

“Two grown men got into an argument, and now a 12-year-old child is gone,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott told reporters. “What happened here today is one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever seen in my life because this baby was just here, coming back from this youth football league, he’s here every day, trying to keep the young people safe, trying to keep the young men and young women on the right track.”

According to the Gun Violence Archive, at least 355 mass shootings were reported in the United States for the year through Sunday, the 277th day of 2026. The archive, a nonpartisan reference resource, defines mass shootings as cases in which at least four victims are killed or injured.

The United States regularly experiences high rates of such shootings, fueling calls in some quarters for stricter federal gun control. But Congress has failed to pass such measures over the years.