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Shooting at Ala. UPS facility leaves shooter, 2 others dead

23 September 2014 21:37 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. A shooting at a UPS facility in the US state of Alabama has left three persons dead, including the shooter, APA reports quoting Press TV.

The shooter, a man in his late 40s, was allegedly in UPS uniform when he opened fire on Tuesday in the town of Inglenook, Birmingham Police spokesperson Lt. Sean Edwards said, according to CBS News.

The shooting place is scene to a massive police response as police investigate the homicide, AL.com reported.

The shooting happened in UPS Customer Center in the Inglenook community in north Birmingham.

All of the victims appeared to be UPS employees, Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper said.

The United States has an estimated 283 million guns in civilian hands.

The “endemic” gun violence in the United States represents a “substantial, long-term cumulative health burden,” according to a study published on Thursday and conducted by researchers from Columbia University in New York, using data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Researchers calculated that if present trends continue, Americans can expect to lose 336,778 lives to guns between 2011 and 2020.

The US averages about 87 gun deaths and 183 injuries each day in result of gun violence, equaling to over 30,000 deaths per year, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab and the CDC.