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‘Devastating’: Mass shootings obscure daily U.S. gun toll

FILE - Detroit Police and investigators look over a homicide scene on Wyoming Avenue, near the corner of Seven Mile Road, Aug. 28, 2022, in Detroit. Four people were shot, with fatalities, by a person who appeared to be firing at people randomly over a roughly 2 1/2-hour period Sunday morning in Detroit, police said. Americans struggled this week to process not one, but multiple high-profile shootings that unfolded in major cities and smaller towns across the U.S. But behind the stand-out headlines about shooting rampages in Bend, Ore., Phoenix, Detroit and Houston were dozens of murders and violent crimes that went largely unnoticed. (Jose Juarez/Special to Detroit News via AP, File) In this 2020 photo provided by Jessica Taylor, her son Cameron Taylor poses at his high school graduation. Taylor, 20, was fatally shot in Portland, Ore., on Aug. 28, 2022, as he was trying to leave an illegal street racing event in the city that he had stopped to watch. Taylor was one of three people fatally shot and nine injured by gun violence in a 48-hour period in Portland last weekend. Behind the stand-out headlines about shooting rampages in Bend, Ore., Phoenix, Detroit and Houston last weekend were dozens of murders and violent crimes that went largely unnoticed. (Jessica Taylor via AP) In this 2020 photo provided by Jessica Taylor, her son Cameron Taylor poses at his high school graduation. Taylor, 20, was fatally shot in Portland, Ore., on Aug. 28, 2022, as he was trying to leave an illegal street racing event in the city that he had stopped to watch. Taylor was one of three people fatally shot and nine injured by gun violence in a 48-hour period in Portland last weekend. Behind the stand-out headlines about shooting rampages in Bend, Ore., Phoenix, Detroit and Houston last weekend were dozens of murders and violent crimes that went largely unnoticed. (Jessica Taylor via AP) FILE - Emergency personnel respond to a shooting at the Forum shopping center in east Bend, Ore., on Aug. 28, 2022. Americans struggled this week to process not one, but multiple high-profile shootings that unfolded in major cities and smaller towns across the U.S. But behind the stand-out headlines about shooting rampages in Bend, Ore., Phoenix, Detroit and Houston were dozens of murders and violent crimes that went largely unnoticed. (Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin via AP, File) FILE - Robin Ahrens, a resident of a multi-room renting facility, reacts to a fatal shooting at the apartments in Houston, on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. Americans struggled this week to process not one, but multiple high-profile shootings that unfolded in major cities and smaller towns across the U.S. But behind the stand-out headlines about shooting rampages in Bend, Ore., Phoenix, Detroit and Houston were dozens of murders and violent crimes that went largely unnoticed. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP) FILE - A police officer carries traffic barricades across 27th Avenue near Dear Valley Road, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2022, in Phoenix, as a damaged police vehicle is transported out of the area after a shooting occurred the night before injuring two Phoenix police officers. Americans struggled this week to process not one, but multiple high-profile shootings that unfolded in major cities and smaller towns across the U.S. But behind the stand-out headlines about shooting rampages in Bend, Ore., Phoenix, Detroit and Houston were dozens of murders and violent crimes that went largely unnoticed. (Megan Mendoza/The Arizona Republic via AP)
‘Devastating’: Mass shootings obscure daily U.S. gun toll