Janelle Griffith is a national reporter for NBC News focusing on issues of race and policing.
One person was killed and a park ranger was injured in a shooting Thursday morning in Yellowstone National Park in Canyon Village, Wyoming, park officials said. The episode began overnight and ended Thursday morning, Yellowstone National Park said in a news release. Rangers responded to a report of a person with a firearm who was making threats at Canyon Village, which is south of Tower Falls in the central part of the park. Rangers contacted the person and exchanged gunfire. The person died.
An area around the Canyon Lodge complex remained closed as part of the investigation. Park officials said there are no active threats to the public, and no additional information was available. Todd Heskett said he was staying at the Canyon Village hotel with his wife and two of their children, ages 14 and 22, when he heard gunshots coming from the Canyon Lodge eatery around 8 a.m.
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