A week in the life of killing in America Victims of the Newtown school shooting are remembered on a U.S. flag. A further 4000 Americans have been killed by gun since this massacre. New York Times columnist Joe Nocera recently started a blog called the Gun Report, documenting the extent of violence since the Newtown school massacre last December. This week in the US Senate, Illinois Democrat Richard Durbin gave a nine-minute speech about the continuing gun violence since the killings, and the Senate's inability to pass a universal background-check bill. To illustrate the ongoing carnage - more than 4000 Americans have been killed by a gun since Newtown, he pointed out - he read excerpts from last week's Gun Report. This is the latest weekly report. At least seven people were shot and wounded in Chicago on Wednesday in six incidents. The victims were a man, 34; a man, 30; a man, 19; a man, 19; a man, 30; and two 19-year-old men. - Chicago Tribune Five people shot in Detroit on Wednesday after a 24-year-old opened fire following a verbal altercation between two families. A 60-year-old woman was killed and a 15-year-old girl, two women and a man are in serious condition. Police say they know who the suspect is but he is not in custody yet. - WXYZ.com Detroit Police are investigating an early Wednesday shooting on the city's west side picked up by security cameras. A man was taken to hospital in a serious condition. - WXYZ.com An 18-year-old high school student was killed on Wednesday when a gunman fired shots from a vehicle in Newark, New Jersey. The student, who was a senior at Weequahic High School, had signed himself out of class shortly before he was killed. - NJ.com A Tuscon middle school was on lockdown on Wednesday while police investigated a nearby shooting. A man was in his front yard when a juvenile who was bleeding from his head approached and said he'd been shot. Police said another juvenile had fired the gun and was in custody. - News4Tuscon A boy in his mid-teens suffered a gunshot wound to his leg on Monday night during a gang-related shooting at a park in Greeley, Colorado. - DenverPost.com Police are looking for two people in connection with a fatal shooting at a Dallas apartment building on Wednesday. A man, believed to be in his 20s, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds. Police believe two men in a white minivan had been following him prior to the killing. - Texoma'sHomepage.com Prichard, Alabama, police are investigating a shooting behind the Two Dragons convenience store on Wednesday that killed a 21-year-old. The suspect ran into a house next door and hid in a closet. - Local15 A woman is in a critical condition after a shooting early Wednesday near a Colton, California, shopping centre. Police said the shooting followed a confrontation between the victim and the suspects about why the suspects were in that area. - The Press-Enterprise A woman was shot in the face and wounded on the east side of Springfield, Missouri, late Wednesday afternoon. Police have conflicting descriptions of the suspect. - KY3 A 50-year-old man was shot multiple times and critically wounded during a fight inside his Rochester, New York, residence. The shooter ran from the scene. - DemocratandChronicle.com Police say Arlie Druen, 33, was shot and killed by his roommate Tuesday night. Richard Welker, 33, was identified as a suspect and taken into custody. - News10 It's not clear what led to a 45-year-old man being fatally shot in the chest late Tuesday afternoon, officials in Brockton, Massachusetts, said. - Boston.com Saginaw, Michigan, police are investigating an afternoon shooting on the city's East Side Wednesday afternoon. After responding to reports of a car crash, officers discovered that the driver of the vehicle was shot. - MLive A 33-year-old man was shot multiple times on a Milwaukee sidewalk after an argument Wednesday afternoon. - TMJ4 One man died and another was critically wounded in a shooting early Wednesday morning in north-east Houston. Police don't know what sparked the gunfire but it does not appear that the men shot each other. - Houston Chronicle Police are searching for at least one suspect in a shooting Wednesday afternoon in Panama City, Florida, that left two men wounded. - The News Herald