Two gunmen in the US city of Las Vegas shot and killed 5 people, including two police officers and themselves during a mass shooting on Sunday.
The attackers, a man and a woman, first killed the officers at about 11:30 a.m. local time as they were eating lunch at a pizza restaurant, according to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police spokesman Larry Hadfield.
Witnesses say one of the gunmen yelled “This is the start of a revolution” before shooting the officers. The shooters then stripped the officers of their weapons and ammunition.
The shooters then went to a Walmart store across the street from the restaurant and fatally shot a third person at the store’s entrance.
Deputy Sheriff Kevin McMahill reported that one of the shooters, described as a tall white man, yelled “everyone get out” before unleashing a hail of bullets inside of the Walmart.
The shooters then apparently killed themselves at the back of the store, in what officials described as “some kind of suicide pact.”
The latest shootings come against a backdrop of rising gun violence across the United States. Many critics blame the liberal gun control laws in the country for the high rate of gun-related deaths.
Every year, more than 30,000 people are shot and killed in the United States. The year 2012 was a record setting year for gun sales in the US. About 4.5 million firearms are sold annually in the US at a cost of 2 to 3 billion dollars.
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