5 Aug 2019

29 dead after 2 mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over weekend

From First Up, 5:48 am on 5 August 2019

To the US now, where two mass shootings have taken place in less than 24 hours. The first, in the Texas border town of El Paso, saw 20 people killed and more than two dozen injured, after a gunman entered a Walmart store mid-morning Saturday local time. Later that evening in Dayton, Ohio a second shooting left 9 dead and 27 injured. This comes just days after three people were killed at a garlic festival in California and it according to the Gun Violence Archive it brings the number of mass shootings in the US to 251 this year. Joining me now is US Correspondent Danielle Robertson..