THE most violent weekend of the year has left at least 13 dead and 46 injured in devastating shooting incidents across the US.

Nine children struck outside a Georgia gas station were among the growing list of victims from at least 10 mass shootings that affected residents in rural Mississippi and partygoers in New Orleans,

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The Georgia kids, who were aged from five to 17, were rushed to the hospital after bullets were sprayed across the Shell station Saturday night, police said.

Luckily, none of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries.

The gunman was still running free and no arrests were made following the horrific crime.

A whopping 10 mass shootings in a single weekend is “certainly high for this time of year,” according to executive director of Gun Violence Archive Mark Bryant.

Two mass shootings took place in Georgia and Missouri while there was one each in Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina.

At least fifteen of the whopping 13 killed and 46 injured were children and teenagers.

Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research Daniel Webster told USA Today that the accessibility of guns has led to increased violence.

“State lawmakers have pushed Right to Carry laws that either eliminate the need to get a license to carry concealed guns or make getting such a license very easy,” he said.

“But the ‘more guns everywhere’ approach has been found to increase violent crime and does nothing to reduce mass shootings.”

It comes as Northern Mississippi residents were shaken by a spree of gun violence that left six dead on Friday.

Richard Dale Crim, 52, stands accused of opening fire on multiple victims including his ex-wife and stepfather throughout several locations.

He was jailed hours after the shootings began.

His ex was living with her boyfriend George Drane after the two divorced more than four years ago, the AP reports.

Drane described it as a “random act” and said he and his late partner had not seen the man in seven or eight years.

The incident occurred just 41 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee, where officials found 11 shooting victims injured at two separate crime scenes on Sunday night, Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.

In Galena Park, Texas, three teens were shot dead in a house of horrors moments before a gunman sexually assaulted a different 12-year-old girl and turned the gun on himself.

The unnamed shooter was reportedly at his girlfriend’s house where he killed her two daughters, and their friend, and then attacked her youngest on Saturday night.

He then told her to run out of the house before ending his life, according to reports by ABC affiliate KTRK.

A beloved bishop was shot to death in his home, and his housekeeper was arrested moments later.

David O’Connell, 69, was fatally struck in the chest at his Hacienda Heights home in California Saturday afternoon.

On Monday, police announced that O’Connell’s housekeeper’s husband, 65-year-old Carlos Medina, was arrested as a suspect in his murder.

He was taken into custody thanks to a tip from the public that claimed he had been acting strangely since O’Connell’s death.

And a string of violence took place in New Orleans this weekend ahead of Mardi Gras celebrations.

A suspected shooter killed a teen and wounded four others Sunday night at the Bacchus parade in a horrific event that sent a crowd of people running for their lives.

Cops took Mansour Mbodj, 21, into custody shortly after the incident.

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