Two people were killed and three others injured after police said a shooter began firing 'randomly' into a crowd at a Washington state campground that was hosting people attending a nearby music festival on Saturday night, police said.
Police tape cordons off the scene of a fatal shooting in this file photo. Two people were killed and three others injured after police said a shooter began firing "randomly" into a crowd at a Washington state campground that was hosting people attending a nearby music festival on Saturday night, police said.
The suspect was among those injured. He was shot in a confrontation with law enforcement, said Kyle Foreman, public information officer with the Grant County Sheriff's Office. Authorities received the first report of the shooting shortly before 8:30 p.m. at the camping area a few hundred yards from the Gorge Amphitheater, where thousands of people were attending an electronic dance music festival, Foreman said. The Gorge is near the small city of George, about 150 miles east of Seattle.
After the initial shots were fired, the suspect started moving through the campground and "continued to shoot randomly into the crowd" until he was eventually confronted by police and taken into custody, Foreman said. A public alert had advised people that there was an active shooter in the area and to "run, hide or fight," but Foreman said there was no effort to evacuate the festival. The festival continued following the shooting and did not end until early Sunday morning, Foreman said.
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