Overview
- Kerr spoke unprompted for about three minutes before the Warriors’ game in Portland, urging action to prevent gun violence and asking the public to resist looking away.
- Two people were killed and nine wounded in Saturday’s shooting at Brown University, and authorities released a man they had detained as they continue searching for the alleged gunman, according to news reports.
- He called for measures he described as broadly supported, including universal background checks, saying such steps could save lives.
- Kerr became emotional as he asked Americans to imagine the victims as their own family members and to hold elected officials accountable for gun-violence prevention.
- He linked his appeal to years of advocacy shaped by his father Malcolm Kerr’s 1984 killing and past mass shootings such as Parkland, with data from advocacy groups noting hundreds of mass shootings this year.