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21 shot — 3 killed — Saturday in Chicago gun violence

Three people were killed and 18 others were wounded in gun violence Saturday across Chicago, including seven people caught in a mass shooting on the West Side.

Over half of the victims suffered gunshots in a series of three fatal shootings over a period of about 30 minutes near the end of the day >>>

Los Angeles shooting: one dead after Trader Joe's hostage drama

A woman was shot and killed when a gunman ran into a Los Angeles supermarket where he held dozens of people hostage for about three hours on Saturday before handcuffing himself and surrendering to police.

About two hours before taking the hostages, police say the man shot his grandmother seven times and wounded another woman whom he forced into a car. Police chased the vehicle and exchanged gunfire with the man, who crashed into a pole outside Trader Joe’s in the city’s Silver Lake suburb and ran into the store >>>

Heart doctor to George HW Bush dies in bicycle shooting 

A cardiologist who once treated the former US president George HW Bush has been fatally shot by another cyclist while riding through a Houston medical complex. Police were trying to determine if the shooting was random or a targeted act.

The shooting happened around 9am on Friday as Dr Mark Hausknecht was going northbound through the Texas Medical Center, said Troy Finner of Houston police.

“The suspect was on a bicycle as well. Rode past the doctor, turned and fired two shots. The doctor immediately went down,” Finner said. Hausknecht, 65, hit at least once, was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died >>>