The tragic recent wrong-place shootings aren’t the norm. But they reflect an increasingly twitchy, angry, fear-filled America prone to reach for a firearm.
As in the case of Ralph Yarl and Andrew Lester, the toxicity infusing how armed-to-the-teeth Americans interact with each other is deeply worrisome. Joe Biden and other likely 2024 presidential candidates must confront this.
Authorities say Robert Singletary turned himself in to the sheriff's office in Tampa on Thursday, two days and some 600 miles away from the shooting. One victim is still in the hospital.
A North Carolina man accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents after children went to retrieve a basketball that had rolled into his yard was arrested in Florida Thursday afternoon, authorities said