TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A combat involving two groups turned lethal in Tampa when a capturing for the duration of Halloween festivities resulted in two fatalities and 18 people hospitalized early Sunday morning, police mentioned.
Officers responded to the shooting in Tampa just prior to 3 a.m. on the 1600 block of East 7th Avenue in the Ybor Metropolis spot, Tampa Law enforcement Chief Lee Bercaw mentioned all through a press meeting at the scene.
The combat happened in an spot with many bars and golf equipment, and there have been large numbers of late night time revelers in the region at the time, Bercaw stated. Police have been not instantly guaranteed if the persons included in the struggle ended up inside of any of the bars ahead of the shooting.
Gunfire erupts at Halloween celebration
Online video posted online demonstrates people today in Halloween costumes ingesting and conversing on the road when pictures ring out, building a stampede. Some folks topple more than steel tables and choose protect powering them. Video from the aftermath displays law enforcement officers managing numerous persons lying wounded on the ground.
A volley of about a dozen shots rang out adopted a couple of seconds afterwards by a volley of about eight photographs.
“It was a disturbance or a combat concerning two groups. And in this battle in between two groups we had hundreds of innocent folks associated that were in the way,” Bercaw explained.
He did not give particulars of the accidents suffered by the victims taken to place hospitals.
Motive for Tampa shooting unidentified, law enforcement say
A single suspect turned himself in to police, and investigators believe that there ended up at least two shooters concerned, Bercaw reported.
Police are nevertheless investigating the motive for the battle between the two teams, he said.
Officers ended up at the scene at the time of the capturing but none have been wounded, Bercaw stated.
It was at the very least the second mass capturing in the U.S. pursuing the violence in Maine in which 18 individuals ended up killed and dozens much more damage.
The suspected gunman in that incident was located useless following a two-day manhunt.
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