Shots targeted a downtown room in which a teenage girl was celebrating her sixteenth birthday. The motive remains to be clarified, but investigators believe that an altercation led to this tragedy, according to the local channel WRBL.

One in three adults owns at least one gun and nearly one in two adults lives in a household where there is a gun. The United States is paying a very heavy price for the spread of firearms on its territory and for the ease with which Americans have access to them.