{"id":322789,"date":"2026-08-17T00:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322789\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T00:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:16:22","slug":"at-least-one-killed-four-wounded-in-hartford-shooting-after-violent-scenes-in-kentucky-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322789\/","title":{"rendered":"At least one killed, four wounded in Hartford shooting after violent scenes in Kentucky, Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least one person was killed and four were wounded in a mass shooting in Connecticut early Sunday \u2014 the latest in a bloody weekend of attacks that left dozens wounded in Chicago, Virginia and Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Cops were called to the SoulBaila nightclub in in Hartford at around 1:40 a.m. to reports of a shooting and discovered a crowd of around 100 people and an unresponsive person, local outlet\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtnh.com\/news\/connecticut\/hartford\/five-shot-one-killed-in-hartford-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WTNH reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was pronounced dead at the scene and had yet to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers investigating the scene of a mass shooting at the SoulBaila nightclub in Hartford, Conn. on Aug. 16, 2026 Douglas Healey for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>A victim\u2019s body being removed from the scene of the Hartford shooting that left one person dead and four others wounded. Douglas Healey for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 30s was in a critical but stable condition. Two men, one in his 20s and one in his 30s, and an adult woman, were all in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Cops believe one gun was used in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Hartford Police Major Crimes and Crime Scene divisions were investigating.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It came just hours after one person was killed and four were wounded in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/16\/us-news\/one-killed-and-four-wounded-in-kentucky-in-park-massacre-4th-mass-shooting-in-24-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">shooting in Lexington, Kentucky<\/a>, on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>At least 13 shots were fired close to a packed downtown bar at around 6:45 p.m. local time sending crowds running for cover.<\/p>\n<p>A 4-year-old, a 14-year-old, and two adults were shot, with all four taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was declared dead at the hospital and the incident remains under investigation, with no arrests made.<\/p>\n<p>One person was killed and four others were injured after gunfire erupted in a packed downtown bar district in Lexington, Kentucky. Facebook\/Dionne King<\/p>\n<p>Also on Saturday evening, Chicago was hit by a drive-by mass shooting, wounding four people, two critically,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/chicago-shooting-4-shot-2-critically-injured-south-sangamon-street-auburn-gresham-police-say\/19685309\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WLS reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At around 7:15 p.m., a car pulled up alongside a group walking along the sidewalk in the Gresham neighborhood of the city\u2019s South Side before multiple occupants fired shots out of the windows and driving off.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, a 32-year-old woman, a 34-year-old man, a 43-year-old man, and a third man of unknown age, were all injured,<\/p>\n<p>Four people were injured in a drive-by shooting in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood of Chicago. CBS Chicago<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday evening, police in Virginia arrested a suspect over a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/15\/us-news\/mass-shooting-at-virginia-state-university-leaves-several-wounded-puts-campus-on-lockdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">shooting early that morning at Virginia State University<\/a>\u00a0that injured five, including a student.<\/p>\n<p>Suspect Camron Harris is not a VSU student, and nor were four of the victims, according to Chesterfield County Police who made the arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The school previously said that the shooting involved \u201cmultiple suspects,\u201d in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one person was killed and four were wounded in a mass shooting in Connecticut early Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2222,57,9,11,10,3980,58],"class_list":["post-322789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-connecticut","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-shootings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}