July has already seen 11 mass shootings. The emotional scars won't heal easily
There have been nearly a dozen mass shootings this month and a total 346 mass shootings so far this year — each one leaving a heavy toll for communities around them.
Monday night, a gunman wearing a bulletproof vest killed five people in a southwest Philadelphia neighborhood. Two children — ages 2 and 13 — were injured.
Another shooting occurred the same night at a street festival in Fort Worth, Texas, killing three people and wounding eight.
One day earlier, in Baltimore's Brooklyn Homes neighborhood, a shooting at a block party killed two people and left 28 injured.
These are among the — defined as acts of gun violence injuring or killing at least four people — that have occurred this month, and 346 mass shootings.
