Around 11 p.m., officers in the Cherry Street area heard gunshots and arrived to find “several parties exchanging gunfire and numerous people fleeing the area,” according to police.

“Two individuals from one group started firing upon the other group,” Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy said in a news conference Sunday. “They believe that there wasn’t one intended target — at least in that other group — and all of the other victims that were shot were unintended.”

Murphy stated that the incident did not appear to be gang-related.

According to police Sgt. Jeremy Eames, a number of gunshot victims were sent to a hospital for treatment. According to him, four of the victims are expected to live, while two are in grave danger. He went on to say that the majority of those killed were teenagers or young adults.

“We had large groups of juveniles walking around the downtown area this date and we believe it’s from within that group that the shooting took place,” he said.

Mayor Tim Kelly of Chattanooga, who was present at the news conference, said he was “experiencing a wide variety of emotions” in the aftermath of the incident. “I’m heartbroken for the victims and families whose lives were turned upside down by shooting last night,” he said.

The mayor also recommended that parents be aware of where their firearms are stored and keep them out of reach of their children.

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Following two earlier mass shootings in a two-week span — at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and a church in Laguna Woods, California — the mass shooting on Tuesday has sparked statewide and national discussions about gun regulation.

According to a top Customs and Border Protection official, more than 100 federal police reacted to the shooting, and the head of the Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector told CNN that the crime scene was unsettling. Chief Patrol Agent Jason Owens said, “I took my agents back to the Uvalde sector, and I had to bring new uniforms for them to change them.” Owens said, “Why?” when asked why “He was drenched in blood. This person’s actions were heinous.”

Judge Lalo Diaz said that the bodies of nine victims will be handed to funeral homes on Wednesday, and the remaining 12 bodies will be released on Thursday. The shooter’s body is in another county’s morgue, according to Diaz.

Officials claimed Wednesday that the shooter stayed on the premises for up to an hour before police enforcement forcibly entered a classroom and killed him. Rep. Tony Gonzales, whose district contains Uvalde, said that the gunman was engaged in a standoff with police and had barricaded himself for approximately a half-hour as the rest of the kids and faculty were evacuated.

The incident on Tuesday, which left 21 people dead and 17 others injured, was the bloodiest school shooting in over a decade and stunned a nation still reeling from a horrific shooting just 10 days prior.

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