US gun violence

A man with a rifle and tactical gear was shot and killed by police after he opened fire in Texas.

The crowd was leaving the nightclub following an album release party for rapper Mello Buckzz.

Lucy Harrison was visiting her father during a holiday in Texas when she was fatally wounded.

The parents and brother of Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman spoke out for the first time since the shooting last week.

Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in their home in what officials have called a "politically motivated assassination" attempt.

Vance Luther Boelter attempted to kill two other Minnesota state lawmakers, authorities revealed at a press conference on Monday.

Yvette Hoffman, one of the victims of Saturday's shootings, shielded her daughter from being shot.

Hortman and her husband were killed and Hoffman and his wife injured in what officials called "targeted political violence".