3 dead in shooting near Fredericksburg, US

Three people were killed and three others were wounded in a shooting on a residential street just outside Fredericksburg, Va., on April 8, the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said, Report informs via The New York Times.

The authorities said that the shooting may have been carried out by more than one attacker, and that no one had been taken into custody. A motive was not immediately clear, but a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office said that the shooting had not arisen from a domestic dispute.

The shooting was reported around 5:30 p.m. on Olde Greenwich Circle, a street of modest townhouses in Spotsylvania County about 60 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., the sheriff’s office said. People in the immediate area were urged to stay indoors, and others were told to avoid the area.

The ages of the victims were not known. The injured victims were taken to area hospitals, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. A bystander’s video showed what appeared to be two bodies covered in white sheets several yards apart on the pavement outside a row of houses.