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LZ Granderson: After a family in Texas is killed, the language of gun violence fails us

San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers and Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Houston James Smith speak to the medias near the crime scene where five people, including an 8- year-old child, were killed after a shooting inside a home on April 29, 2023, in Cleveland, Texas.

On Sunday, police in Texas say, a 38-year-old man in a Houston suburb gunned down a neighboring family. He had been firing shots in his yard, and they asked him to move farther from their home because their baby was asleep. Gone are Sonia Argentina Guzman, Diana Velázquez Alvarado, Julisa Molina Rivera, José Jonathan Cásarez and Daniel Enrique Laso-Guzman, who turned 9 in January.

This pushes us to more than in the U.S. this year. There have also been about 6,000 gun homicides so far.

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