A suspect remains at large after at least one person was killed in a shooting in San Diego on Saturday night.
Two people were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds after shots were fired at Nobel Drive and Lombard Place in the University City neighborhood at around 8:40 p.m., NBC San Diego reported.
No information about the suspect was immediately released.
Late on Saturday night, the San Diego Police Department posted on social media that Nobel Drive would be closed for several hours in both directions between Genesee Avenue and Towne Centre Drive.
Officer Darius Jamsetjee told the station that the street may open at around 4 a.m. Jamsetjee said the shooting was not an active shooter incident, but isolated to the street.
Newsweek has contacted the San Diego Police Department for further comment via email.
Melissa Fulton, who lives nearby, told NBC San Diego that shootings are not common in her neighborhood.
Fulton was coming home from a bonfire when she found that police had blocked off all access to her house as they investigated the shooting.
"It's scary to think that there's an active shooter situation over there," Fulton told the station.
The shooting occurred hours before a shooting in a bar in New York City left three people injured.
The incidents come amid renewed calls for stricter gun laws after a woman was killed and 22 people were injured in a mass shooting at the end of Wednesday's parade to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl win in Kansas City. The shooting occurred on the sixth anniversary of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stonemason Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people.
Gun violence continues to claim lives at a high rate in the United States. More than 4,800 people have died by guns so far in 2024, at least 2,100 of them in homicidal or accidental shootings, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that there had been more mass shootings in 2024 "than there have been days in the year."
The shooting "cuts deep in the American soul," he said in a statement that called on people to press Congress to ban assault weapons, to limit high-capacity gun magazines and other gun measures that have been rejected by Republicans.
The shooting "should move us, shock us, shame us into acting. What are we waiting for?" he asked. "What else do we need to see? How many more families need to be torn apart?"
Update 2/18/2024, 9:50 a.m. ET: This article has been updated to add more information.
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