2 people were shot at a cemetery south of Milwaukee on Thursday

2 people were shot at a cemetery south of Milwaukee on Thursday.

According to authorities, two individuals were shot at a cemetery south of Milwaukee on Thursday, the latest in a string of shootings around the country in recent weeks.

The gunshot was classified by Racine police as a “serious” situation, and residents were advised to avoid the area. Multiple bullets were fired in the direction of a funeral ceremony on Thursday afternoon, according to police.

A kid was treated and discharged, according to Sgt. Kristi Wilcox, while a second individual, was taken to a Milwaukee hospital. It was not immediately clear whether any suspects had been apprehended.

Several shots were fired at 2:30 p.m. at Graceland Cemetery in Racine, some 30 miles south of Milwaukee, according to Racine police on social media. The incident has left an unidentified number of casualties at Ascension All Saints Hospital, which is located near the cemetery.

According to Da’Shontay L. King Sister, .’s Natasha Mullen, the shooting happened during the burial of her brother, who was tragically shot by Racine police on May 20.

She told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “We were at the graveyard trying to get ready to bury him when gunshots began flying everywhere.”

The incident occurred only one day after a gunman opened fire at a Tulsa medical facility, killing his surgeon and three others.

It’s the most recent in a string of mass shootings in the United States, including a fatal school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and a supermarket assault in Buffalo, New York.

Ascension Following the incident, All Saints Hospital in Racine was placed on lockdown “out of an excess of caution,” according to a statement from the hospital. The lockdown was eventually lifted.

Cory Mason, the mayor of Racine, issued a statement stating that, “The horrible shooting at a cemetery when a family was already grieving the death of a loved one is a new low for our community’s violent criminals. It’s time to put an end to the bloodshed!”

Mason said he was giving the police department orders to enforce the city’s juvenile curfew over the weekend, which requires anybody under 18 to be home by 11 p.m.

According to the Racine Journal Times, people in the area reported hearing 20 to 30 rounds.

Three young guys reported they heard bullets. The fence behind them was repeatedly struck while playing basketball at Lockwood Park, just west of the cemetery.

One of the males, Tre Brantley, began sprinting to his vehicle as soon as he heard bullets. He and his brother, Kellyn Foster, both went inside their vehicle and crouched down, hoping to avoid being wounded.

Brantley remarked of the gun violence, “This has got to end.”

During a traffic stop around two weeks ago, a Racine police officer fatally shot King, 37.

Police said they were executing a search warrant on a vehicle when King, who had a weapon, fled the scene.

According to authorities, Officer Zachary B. Brenner shot King after he refused to obey demands to drop the firearm.