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NINE PEOPLE ENJOYING Fourth of July festivities in the United States’ capital were shot and hurt, police said, as a spate of violence marred the holiday.
Officers responding at about 1am on Wednesday (6am Irish time) to the mass shooting in a neighbourhood about 20 minutes east of the White House found a 10-year-old and 17-year-old among the victims, Metropolitan Police Department assistant chief Leslie Parsons said.
The victims, who were not publicly identified, were admitted to hospital with injuries not considered to be life-threatening, police said.
The shots were fired from a dark car seen driving through the Deanwood neighbourhood, Parsons said, calling the shooting targeted.
It was unclear if there was more than one gunman in the SUV and no arrests had been made, said police, who appealed to the public for information to help in their investigation.
The Washington shooting was the latest in a string of mass shootings over a violent holiday weekend.
Thirty people were shot, two fatally, at a block party in Baltimore early on Sunday.
Many of the shooting victims were children, authorities said.
On Monday night, a gunman in a bulletproof vest opened fire on the streets of Philadelphia, killing five people and wounding two boys, aged two and 13, before he surrendered, police said.
Three people were killed and eight others hurt when several men fired indiscriminately into a crowd of hundreds which had gathered in a Texas neighbourhood following a festival in the area, authorities said.
The shooting in the Fort Worth neighbourhood of Como happened late on Monday night, about two hours after the annual ComoFest ended.
And in Florida, a seven-year-old was killed in a shooting during an altercation between two groups gathered for Fourth of July celebrations along a causeway which crosses Tampa Bay, police said.
A man was also hit with gunfire but was expected to survive.
The child was declared dead at a hospital.
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Still use my nano for runs and the gym , it’s great.
We had the classic iPod, then our daughter got the nano5 and our son the nano7. His has broken since, but hers still works.
Would be nice to have an mp3 player not reliant on the internet to give kids to let them have music in their bedroom….tjat did not have a camera, text messaging, etc. In other words, can we have separate devices for each activity? Oh wait….we used to have it that way…..
@Seeking Truth: I bought my daughter a low tech stereo system and CDs! She loves that the radio never buffers!!!
@Deborah Behan: she has a CD player and can listen to the radio on her iPod nano. But Spotify makes things tricky!! Looking at a Sonos wireless speaker that runs from an app anywhere in the house so the device can stay downstairs but they are fairly spendy!!!
Still have me 2gb nano and 80gb iPod 2nd edition and they are still going strong!
I still use my 120gb iPod. Long may it last !
I wish I had any iPod
I won an iPod nano 4th gen in college in 2004. I wasn’t into music really turn so I gave it to my sister who was. A few years later she gave it back when she got a phone that could store music. I used it for podcasts and music then. In 2010 I got an iPod touch 4th gen and used that instead. A couple years ago I gave the iPod nano back to my sister and she uses it for music in her car. It’s a great little device.
What’s a Walkman ??? :) I’m still hauling a record player around with a long extension lead :)
I have the first Generation IPod, took great care of it and think I even have the original box for it.I’m hoping it will be worth something in the future
@Melina Roberts: It probably will be. Apple recalled them a few years back due to battery issues and replaced them with a newer version (the small square thing whose button always breaks). If the screen wasn’t broken we wouldn’t of sent ours away. It was the original classic design.
Pity…
very tough to get a device these days that children want and can satisfy parents at the same time.
Over rated over priced just like VW Audi cars.
@Alan Scott: I got a nano 9 years ago and still works fine. Worth every cent!
I had a 5th gen Nano about 10 years ago. It was a perfect piece of kit and had I not lost it it would probably still be my preferred way to listen to music.
I had a 160gb iPod classic and have an iPod touch but never use it now. I use Spotify on my phone as my main source of music these days.
I waited for the first generation iPod touch. I still have it (though for a time I thought I lost it and got a 4th or 5th generation iPod touch and found the 1st generation one a few days later.)
never liked apple devices
Classic
I have a one of those iPod classics U2 edition jobbys somewhere in the house, never even been used as I can’t find it. I’m sure that it is a great little device when it turns up! : O
Never owned an Apple product and never will.
My neck’s killing me carting this boombox about.
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