Halloween Weekend Shootings Across US Leave Multiple Dead and Dozens Wounded
Photo: APShootings in nightlife districts and near college campuses across the United States over Halloween weekend left at least six people dead and dozens injured, officials said. The deadliest violence was in Dallas, where several shootings in the Deep Ellum entertainment district killed four people and wounded 15, police said. Chief Daniel Comeaux said investigators were still trying to determine whether three separate Saturday night shootings, spread over about an hour and 15 minutes, were related. He said some arrests had been made but did not say how many. Extra police had been deployed to the district, and no officers were hurt. In Birmingham, Alabama, one person was killed and eight wounded in two shootings outside Legion Field after the Alabama A&M–Alabama State Magic City Classic. In Bloomington, Indiana, officers near Indiana University's homecoming crowd heard shots around 1:30 a.m. ET, detained a man with a gun, and said it was unclear whether he fired. Seven people were hospitalized there, with no deaths. Police also reported shootings in Newark, Delaware, where about six people were reportedly hospitalized, and in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Fox News, the right-leaning outlet, frames the story around college communities. Its headline cites three dead and at least 29 injured near five campuses, and it gives police and university accounts from Birmingham, Bloomington and Delaware, plus a costume-night photo from Newark. The portion provided does not mention Dallas. CNN, on the left, treats it as a national gun-violence story, reporting more than a dozen killed and over 90 injured and calling the weekend violent. Its excerpt names no individual cities or officials. The outlets' tallies differ widely, and Fox's own figures vary between its headline and text. Both agree that celebrations and campus-area gatherings were upended by shootings across several states. AP and France 24 differ from both by leading with Dallas and Chief Comeaux, and by giving a lower count of at least six dead.
How the sides differ Right sources narrow in on shootings near college communities with lower tallies; left sources stress a national toll of more than a dozen dead and over 90 injured.
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CNN leads with the national scale, reporting more than a dozen killed and over 90 injured over the weekend, and describes celebrations upended by gun violence without naming officials in the excerpt.
France 24 and AP lead with Dallas's Deep Ellum, where four died, quoting Police Chief Daniel Comeaux, and put the national toll at at least six dead and dozens hurt.
Fox News focuses on shootings near college communities in Birmingham, Bloomington and Delaware, citing police and university statements and giving lower totals of 3 dead and at least 29 injured.