A shooting at a Minnesota park killed one woman and injured five others.
Officers were dispatched to Boom Island Park in Minneapolis on Sunday, June 1, around 9:30 p.m., for reports of shots fired, which were quickly upgraded to reports of a shooting, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said at a press conference the following morning.
Officers from the Minneapolis Police Department and Minneapolis Park Police arrived at a “very chaotic scene” with over 100 people still screaming and fleeing, he said during a press conference broadcast on local station ABC 5 Eyewitness News.
People had gathered at the park for a “barbecue or something else” when “an altercation erupted into gunfire,” O’Hara stated.
Authorities believe “more than one shooter” was involved in the incident, he stated.
Police discovered three male shooting victims at the scene, as well as one female victim in a car near the park’s entrance at 11th Avenue Northeast and Sibley Street Northeast, he said.
The female victim, who has not been identified, was rushed to a nearby hospital and later died.
One of the three male shooting victims transported to the hospital by ambulance has life-threatening injuries.
Two other male victims who were transported to the hospital in private vehicles sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
One more adult female was knocked unconscious during the “melee that followed” the shooting, he said.
Authorities have yet to identify the victims.
“Our hearts go out to the woman whose life was taken in this incident and everyone else that was affected by it,” said Mr. Trump.
While the woman’s family mourns her death, authorities are combing through “literally hundreds of pieces of evidence” at the scene in an effort to identify “all of those who are responsible for this,” according to O’Hara.
“It’s a very extensive scene,” he said. “There were a whole lot of rounds fired.”
O’Hara described the number of rounds fired as “outrageous,” adding that the amount of shell casings recovered here is more akin to a war zone. “It’s just sickening.”
He said he doesn’t know why people gathered at the park or what prompted the shooting.
“I don’t know what can motivate people to come armed to a gathering like this in the way that they did,” according to O’Hara.
