A shooting erupted hours after a local festival ended Monday night in Texas, leaving at least three people dead and eight others wounded, officials said.
A shooting erupted hours after a local festival ended on Fourth of July weekend in Texas, leaving at least three people dead and eight others wounded, officials said.
Violence broke out at about 11:40 p.m. Monday in the Como neighborhood in southwest Fort Worth, where 11 people were shot hours after the neighborhood’s annual ComoFest had ended,Multiple shooting victims were discovered by first responders in a parking lot. Emergency officials said it was difficult to reach many of the victims at first because so many people were trying to evacuate the area.Ten of the victims were adults while only one was a juvenille.Fort Worth Police Sgt. Jason Spencer told reporters at the scene that there was a “large crowd gathering” in the parking lot at the time of the shooting,
Some of the victims were taken to hospitals in ambulances while others were transported in their own private vehicles. All of their conditions were not immediately known.One person died at the scene of the shooting.No arrests have been made as of Tuesday morning.Police have not shared a motive behind the violence.
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