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Two killed, 35 injured in shooting at Georgia homecoming block party

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A shooting broke out around 1:25 a.m. Sunday at a neighborhood block party in Vienna, Georgia, killing two people and injuring 35 others, authorities said. More than 1,000 people had gathered for a homecoming weekend event when over 50 shots were fired in at least two locations about a block apart, Dooly County Sheriff Craig Peavy said. Some victims were struck by cars or injured while fleeing. A motive was not immediately known.

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