Suicides, mass shootings, murders and celebratory gunfire were among the reasons dozens of people lost their lives on the first day of the new decade, data shows.
High Point Police Department in North Carolina said in a news release they responded to a property at 2:41 a.m. on New Year's Day where a husband and wife—Hong Van Ma, 49, and Jenny Thao Ta, 40—were both found dead from gunshot wounds to the head."Police believe that Ma killed his wife, then killed himself," the department said.
Seven people were injured but none killed in a mass shooting at the Kulture Hookah Bar in Huntington, West Virginia, WSAZ reported. There were 50 people in the bar at the time and WSAZ reported that police do not believe the shooting was random. They named no suspects.
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