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After a deadly afternoon in the city, following several weeks of shootings and gruesome abuse cases, many are wondering what is behind the violence increase. A mental health professional weighs in.

It wasn't clear what prompted the shootings or how they were linked.

CONSERVATION Police Officers with the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources are investigating two hunting-related shootings that happened on Thanksgiving week.

San Antonio police had a busy Thanksgiving week after being called to at least three shootings that left multiple people dead and several others injured.

Some residents at an East Side apartment complex say they want out after two unsolved shootings in their neighborhood.

Authorities say two people were killed and at least 30 others wounded in mass shootings overnight in three states.

San Antonio community leaders are trying to get ahead of the spike in crime that’s recently hit our community. There have been at least nine shootings since Sunday in the city.

After a significant drop in mass shootings in the United States during a pandemic-hit 2020, this year has seen several deadly ones.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – A pair of overnight shootings along the beachfront in Virginia Beach left two people dead and eight wounded in a scene described by authorities on Saturday as “very chaotic.”In a statement, the Virginia Beach Police Department said the first shooting occurred shortly after 11 p.m. Friday, when police who were patrolling the area heard gunfire. Police arriving at the scene found a woman who died of her injuries and eight people whose injuries were described as serious or life-threatening. In addition, an officer sustained minor injuries after being struck by a vehicle, Chief Paul Neudigate said at a news conference. Ad“We have a very chaotic incident, a very chaotic night,” Neudigate said. Neudigate said several people were in police custody, but their possible involvement in the shooting was still under investigation.

Mass shootings, which had become far less frequent in 2020, have come roaring back. The question we were asked repeatedly during 2020 was why mass shootings had dropped off so dramatically. But a key factor in why there were no mass shootings that met our definition for about a year, between March 2020 and March 2021, was the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the settings where mass shootings typically occur — workplaces, schools, churches, shopping centers — had either shut down or sharply reduced their capacity. This means that psychosis played some role in 30% of mass shootings, but no role 70% of the time.

At least 8 dead in shootings at Georgia spas A deadly shooting rampage in Georgia has left at least eight people dead and several others injured. Henri Hollis, a breaking news reporter with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, joins "CBSN AM" with the latest.

Authorities say shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors have left several people dead, many of them women of Asian descent. A 21-year-old man suspected in the shootings was taken into custody in southwest Georgia hours later after a manhunt, police said. FBI spokesman Kevin Rowson said the agency was assisting Atlanta and Cherokee County authorities in the investigation. Long was then taken into custody “without incident” and was being held in the Crisp County jail for Cherokee County authorities who were expected to arrive soon to continue their investigation. Due to the shootings, Atlanta police said they dispatched officers to check nearby similar businesses and increased patrols in the area.

The fatal shootings came after the end of an exceptionally violent year in Chicago. The city recorded more than 760 homicides, an increase of more than 50% over 2019. Meanwhile, there were more than 3,200 shootings in 2020, also an increase of more than 50%. More than 4,100 people were shot, at least 686 of them fatally, in 2020, after almost 2,200 people were shot in 2019, at least 460 of them fatally, according to data compiled by the Tribune.

SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio woman who lost a loved one after he was shot and killed by San Antonio police says Bexar County needs to invest more in community resources like education, housing and health. Police said Zemault had his finger on the trigger, and another detective fired one round into Zemault’s back, killing him. Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales announced the formation of a civil rights division that will handle shootings by officers. The district attorney’s new civil rights division will include two prosecutors, an investigator and a victim advocate. The new division will be investigating shootings, in-custody deaths --including those that may occur at the Bexar County Jail -- and excessive force cases.

First Deputy Superintendent Eric Carter said mourners outside a funeral home in the Gresham neighborhood were fired upon from a passing vehicle. The victims were taken by the Chicago Fire Department to nearby hospitals in serious condition, said spokesman Larry Langford. It wasnt immediately known if anyone other than attendees of the funeral were victims, nor if anyone in the SUV had been wounded. The shooting comes as the Department of Homeland Security is planning to deploy dozens of federal agents to Chicago to deal with an uptick in violent crime in the city. Oregons governor and Portlands mayor have expressed anger with the presence of the federal agents, saying that the citys protests had started to ease just as the federal agents started taking action.

A police officer engages with a protester Wednesday, July 1, 2020, in Seattle, where streets had been blocked off in an area demonstrators had occupied for weeks. Seattle police showed up in force earlier in the day at the "occupied" protest zone, tore down demonstrators' tents and used bicycles to herd the protesters after the mayor ordered the area cleared following two fatal shootings in less than two weeks. The "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest" zone was set up near downtown following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Collective bargaining agreements for officers provide protections that stand in the way of accountability, even when the federal government is overseeing an agency through a consent decree, experts said. Contracts designed to ensure officers receive fair wages and benefits have spilled over into public policy. These examples bolster the hypothesis that some union contract provisions may impede effective investigations of police misconduct and shield problematic officers from discipline, Rushin said. The city entered into a settlement agreement, or consent decree, the following year and passed an accountability measure for additional oversight. One Seattle officer who benefited from the union contract in recent years was Cynthia Whitlach.

Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, right, speaks during a news conference Monday, June 15, 2020, in Tampa, Fla. Warren announced his decision not to prosecute dozens of protesters arrested on charges of unlawful assembly during a Black Lives Matter march on June 2. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)TOP OF THE HOUR: Florida state attorney won't prosecute peaceful protesters. State Attorney Andrew Warren in Tampa said that his office wont be filing charges against 67 protesters who were arrested two weeks ago in downtown Tampa. The prosecutors office will also work to expunge the arrest records of the protesters who were taken into custody, he said. In these unlawful assembly cases, there is no value in filing charges, Warren said at a news conference.

Now there is another, a still-growing American casualty list that has exceeded deaths from the Vietnam and Korean wars combined. Actual deaths from COVID-19 are almost certainly higher than the numbers show, an undercount to be corrected in time. It is well beyond what he told people to expect even as his public-health authorities started bracing the country in early April for at least 100,000 deaths. Unlike his emotional vice president, Joe Biden, Obama practiced his own kind of social distancing, to the point of aloofness. This, too, is not Trump's way.

It seems like after every mass shooting, Americans mourn, but then go back to business as usual. Now, one year after the shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, a victim's brother says he'll never stop fighting for change. Steve Hartman met him "On the Road."