Posted on 06/10/2026 9:01:55 PM PDT by Steely Tom
A mass shooting that left 12 people wounded Saturday afternoon at a summer festival in Ohio stemmed from “a dispute involving two rival groups,” according to police.
Shots rang out from two gunmen, one from each group, just after 5:30 p.m. near the Old West End Festival in Toledo. A dozen people were hurt, with the oldest victim being 61 and the youngest 14, police Lt. Dan Gerken said Saturday, noting most were in their early 20s.
Toledo Police Chief Michael Troendle said Tuesday that a dispute between rival groups led to “a foot chase” and a physical altercation in which one person produced a firearm and shot, prompting someone from the rival group to do the same.
“While investigators believe some of the victims are intentionally targeted, the majority of those injured appear to have been innocent bystanders caught up in this senseless act of violence,” Troendle said in a news briefing.
Police estimate that three of the victims were involved in the incident, while nine were caught in the crossfire. All of the victims are expected to survive, with nine already having been released from the hospital, Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz said at the briefing Tuesday.
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Provide “rival group” demographics, please.
Could have been two long-time rival members of the SPEBSQSA.
Roses are red
violets are blue...
What incredible descriptions!! The reader has such a detailed and vivid picture painted by this outstanding work of journalism! No detail escapes the storytelling.
Rival gangs fighting for the same drug market—their version of Capitalism.
“senseless act of violence,”
No. There was a dispute. It was therefore sensible to these sociopaths to shoot up a crowd due to a dispute.
Now whether disputes turn into gunplay or debates under Robert’s Rules of Order depends on the people involved. Which groups devolve their “disputes” into public mass shootings?
Debate Club?
Clear signs of the inevitable onset of civil war...
The complete collapse of society makes Kruschev look like a genius...
Code for chimp packs hostile to each other.
Wave vs. particle.
No. They're not fighting over drug markets.
Black "gang" warfare today are groups of people who largely run in the same social circles and have known each other all their lives pulling out guns and opening fire on each other over social media insults and "diss tracks."
It would actually make sense if the violence was over lucrative drug turf like it was back in the 80s-90s but it's not. Marijuana is legal everywhere and everything stronger is controlled by the cartels and their lower-level associates.
The violence in the black community today is largely recreational and a result of blacks' total inability to control their impulses and their anger. They'll shoot their best friends over petty insults.
Wave v. Particle?
How dare you, sir!
Bang!
Bang! Bang bang bang bang!!!
I can’t stand “rival groups” and wish we could ship them all back.
Them again.
Government agencies like cops think we are too stupid to know exactly who was involved if they just refuse to provide a description.
Jets vs. Sharks, right?
Well they named it “Old West End Festival”...
And they did sort of get an Old West type of end to the festival.
Kinda like the Earps Vs. the Clantons, except with more melanin.
Well, you beat me to it!
Things deteriorated from that point.
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