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At least six people including a聽聽were killed and聽聽in a string of weekend violence and mass shootings across the U.S.

The shootings in suburban Chicago, Washington state, Pennsylvania, St. Louis, Southern California and Baltimore follow a surge in homicides and other violence over the past several years that experts say accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic.

鈥淭here鈥檚 no question there鈥檚 been a spike in violence,鈥� said Daniel Nagin, a professor of public policy and statistics at Carnegie Mellon University. 鈥淪ome of these cases seem to be just disputes, often among adolescents, and those disputes are played out with firearms, not with fists.鈥�

Researchers disagree over the cause of the increase. Theories include the possibility that violence is driven by the prevalence of guns in America, or by less aggressive police tactics or a decline in prosecutions for misdemeanor weapon offenses, Nagin said.

As of Sunday evening, none of the weekend events fit the definition of a聽, because fewer than four people died at each location. However, the number of injured in most of the cases does match the widely accepted definition for mass shootings.

Here鈥檚 a look at the shootings this weekend:

WILLOWBROOK, ILLINOIS

At least 23 people were shot, one fatally, early Sunday in a suburban Chicago parking lot where hundreds of people had gathered to celebrate Juneteenth, authorities said.

The DuPage County sheriff鈥檚 office described a 鈥減eaceful gathering鈥� that suddenly turned violent as a number of people fired multiple shots into the crowd in Willowbrook, Illinois, about 20 miles southwest of Chicago.

A motive for the attack wasn鈥檛 immediately known. Sheriff鈥檚 spokesman Robert Carroll said authorities were interviewing 鈥減ersons of interest鈥� in the shooting, the聽听谤别辫辞谤迟别诲.

A witness, Markeshia Avery, said the celebration was meant to mark Juneteenth, Monday鈥檚 federal holiday commemorating the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed 鈥� two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

鈥淲e just started hearing shooting, so we dropped down until they stopped,鈥� Avery聽

WASHINGTON STATE

Two people were killed and two others were injured when a shooter began聽聽into a crowd at a Washington state campground where people stayed to attend a nearby music festival on Saturday night, police said.

The suspect was shot in a confrontation with law enforcement officers and taken into custody, several hundred yards from the Beyond Wonderland electronic dance music festival.

A public alert advised people of an active shooter in the area and advised them to 鈥渞un, hide or fight.鈥�

The festival carried on until early Sunday morning, Grant County Sheriff鈥檚 Office spokesman Kyle Foreman said. Organizers then posted a tweet saying Sunday鈥檚 concert was canceled.

CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA

One state trooper was killed and a second critically wounded just hours apart in central Pennsylvania on Saturday after a gunman attacked a state police barracks.

The suspect drove his truck into the parking lot of the Lewistown barracks about 11 a.m. Saturday and opened fire with a large-caliber rifle on marked patrol cars before fleeing, authorities said Sunday.

Lt. James Wagner, 45, was shot and critically wounded after encountering the suspect several miles away in Mifflintown. Later, Trooper Jacques Rougeau Jr., 29, was ambushed and killed by a gunshot through the windshield of his patrol car as he drove down a road in nearby Walker Township, authorities said.

The suspect was shot and killed after a fierce gunbattle, said Lt. Col. George Bivens, who went up in a helicopter to coordinate the search for the 38-year-old suspect.

鈥淲hat I witnessed … was one of the most intense, unbelievable gunfights I have ever witnessed,鈥� Bivens said, lauding troopers for launching an aggressive search despite the fact that they were facing a weapon that 鈥渨ould defeat any of the body armor that they had available to them.鈥�

A motive was not immediately known.

ST. LOUIS

An early Sunday shooting in a聽聽office building killed a 17-year-old and wounded nine other teenagers, the city鈥檚 police commissioner said.

St. Louis Metropolitan Police Commissioner Robert Tracy identified the victim who was killed as 17-year-old Makao Moore. A spokesman said a minor who had a handgun was in police custody as a person of interest.

Teenagers were having a party in an office space when the shooting broke out around 1 a.m. Sunday.

The victims ranged from 15 to 19 years old and had injuries including multiple gunshot wounds. A 17-year-old girl was trampled as she fled, seriously injuring her spine, Tracy said.

Shell casings from AR-style rifles and other firearms were scattered on the ground.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

A shooting at a pool party at a聽聽home left eight people wounded, authorities said Saturday.

碍础叠颁-罢痴听聽authorities were dispatched shortly after midnight in Carson, California, south of Los Angeles.

The victims range in age from 16 to 24, the Los Angeles County Sheriff鈥檚 Department said in a statement. They were taken to hospitals, and two were listed in critical condition, the statement said.

Authorities said they found another 16-year-old boy with a gunshot wound when they responded to a call about a vehicle that crashed into a wall nearby.

BALTIMORE

Six people were injured in a Friday night聽. All were expected to survive.

Officers heard gunshots in the north of the city just before 9 p.m. and found three men with numerous gunshot wounds. Medics took them to area hospitals for treatment.

Police later learned of three additional victims who walked into area hospitals with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.

The wounded ranged in age from 17 to 26, Baltimore Police Department spokesperson Lindsey Eldridge said.