Flint mayor calls for end to violence after weekend shootings leave 12 injured

FLINT, MI -- City leaders in Flint pleaded with residents to end the violence after a rash of weekend shootings left 12 people injured, including six at a popup party in a parking lot.

Flanked by police, clergy, and Flint City Council Vice President Maurice Davis, Mayor Sheldon Neeley said police were on site Saturday night in the Hallwood Plaza near the intersection of Clio and Pierson roads.

That’s where shots were fired by people in a crowd of approximately 3,000.

Six people were shot, with all the victims listed in good condition at a local hospital. Information was not immediately available from police on the six additional shooting victims that were injured elsewhere in the city.

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