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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — At slightest 3 radical were killed and 14 others were injured successful a wide shooting astatine a parkland successful the godforsaken metropolis of Las Cruces, New Mexico, constabulary said Saturday.
Police were asking Saturday for bystanders to stock videos and different tips arsenic they continued to question a fishy oregon suspects successful the attack, which occurred astatine astir 10 p.m. connected Friday successful the city's Young Park, a euphony and recreation venue.
Gunshot victims were sent to each 3 section hospitals, arsenic good arsenic to University Medical Center of El Paso, the determination trauma center, according to constabulary and infirmary officials. Six patients arrived astatine Memorial Medical Center successful Las Cruces by ambulance and backstage car, said selling and communications manager Andrew Cummins, and 5 of those person been transported to El Paso.
In a station to Instagram connected Saturday, Las Cruces City Councilor and Mayor Pro Tem Johana Bencomo enactment numbers to the tragedy.
“Part of maine wanted to constitute that this is thing you ne'er truly deliberation this is going to hap successful your city, but that really feels profoundly untrue,” she wrote. “Honestly present days a calamity similar this feels similar a nightmare conscionable waiting to travel existent astatine immoderate imaginable moment, yet besides ever praying and hoping it ne'er will.”
Las Cruces sits connected the borderline of the Chihuahuan Desert on the Rio Grande River successful confederate New Mexico, astir 41 miles (66 kilometers) northbound of the U.S.-Mexican border.
The Las Cruces Police Department said constabulary and occurrence unit who arrived astatine the parkland successful effect to reports of gunfire are being assisted successful their probe by New Mexico State Police, the Dona Ana County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The section was inactive connected country Saturday and the country astir the parkland was closed to traffic, according to section media reports.
