As many as 10 people were wounded in a shooting outside a car show in Arkansas on Saturday night, the state police said.
Keith Finch, chief of police in the town of Dumas, provided the increased number of casualties but said it wasn't immediately clear how many kids had been hurt.State troopers were dispatched at around 7:25 p.m. to Dumas, located about 90 miles south of Little Rock, following a report of gunfire outside a local business where the car show was underway, Arkansas State Police spokesperson Bill Sadler said.
The car show is an annual community event held each spring to raise funds for scholarships and school supplies, according to the Delta Neighborhood Empowerment Youth Organization, which put on the event. Wallace McGehee, the car show's lead organizer, expressed condolences to the victims' families and the community. at the scene. “We did this here for 16 years without a problem.”
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