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[Content note: Gun violence]

Weekend Updates:

10 people were shot, including 4 teens, Friday afternoon and night in Chicago.

Two police officers were fatally shot outside a grocery store in Topeka while responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle yesterday.

50 shots were fired outside an upscale mall mall in Newport Beach Saturday.

An Indiana man threatened to "kill as many people as he could" at an elementary school near his home. Police found 47 guns hidden throughout his home.

A man opened fire in a San Antonio movie theater parking lot last night, wounding one person before an officer shot him inside the theater.

Here is a timeline of mass shootings in the US since the Columbine High massacre.

Last night: A teen was shot to death in St. Louis. A 16-year-old was shot in southwest Houston. A young man died of multiple gunshot wounds in Suffolk, WV. A man was found shot to death at a tattoo parlor in South Gate. Two men were shot to death in a home in Dallas. A 24-year-old man was shot to death in Philadelphia. A man was shot to death at a Georgia car wash. A Miami man was gunned down in front of his family. Three men were killied with an assault rifle in Birmingham. A teenager was shot at a party in Savannah. A 19-year-old man was shot in Columbia, SC.

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