A West Virginia Driver became involved in a dispute with partygoers after they accused him of speeding, he then opened fire into the crowd but was shot dead by a woman attending the party.
The incident happened around 10:45 p.m. on Wednesday night (May 25) at an apartment complex on Renaissance Circle in Charleston, West Virginia.
Charleston Police Department says several people confronted Dennis Butler, 37, over accusations that he had driven dangerously through the area while children were playing outside, according to local news channel WSAZ. Butler left the area but then returned shortly afterward with an AR-15 style rifle and started shooting at the group, according to the police report seen by WSAZ.
The woman who was attending the joint graduation and birthday party drew a pistol to return fire and fatally injured Butler, who was shot multiple times, the report said.
The total amount of gun violence deaths in the U.S. so far in 2022 is 17,428, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a national database. Of the total amount of deaths, 7,726 were due to murder, homicide, or unintentional or defensive gun use, while the remaining numbers were suicides.
