Posted on 06/19/2023 6:56:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
Suspect shot “randomly into the crowd,” at a campground, said Kyle Foreman, a public information officer with the Grant County Sheriff’s Office.
A mass shooting near a Washington State music festival Saturday night left at least two people dead and three more injured, police said.
The suspect shot at one point “randomly into the crowd,” at a campground near the Gorge Amphitheater where the Beyond Wonderland electronic dance music festival was taking place, Kyle Foreman, a public information officer with the Grant County Sheriff’s Office told a news conference.
Officers, he said, responded to a call at 8:23 p.m. local time (11:23 p.m. ET) “to reports of shots fired into the crowd.”
“The shooter then walked away from where the incident happened,” he said. He added that after law enforcement moved into the area “he continued to randomly shoot into the crowd and the suspect was eventually taken into custody.”
Foreman said that two people were killed and three were injured including the suspect.
“We don’t know what the motives were or what the intentions were of the shooter and we’ll have to wait and see if we can find that information out later on,” he said.
Foreman did not provide any details about the names and ages of the victims and he said he did not know what type of weapons were used.
The concert in the small city of Gorge, around 149 miles east of Seattle, was going ahead as planned, he said.
Organizers of the Beyond Wonderland festival posted a tweet asking concertgoers to avoid a specific gate to the campground but said there was no danger.
There have been 307 mass shootings in the U.S. in 2023, according to the Gun Violence archive, a nonprofit that tracks incidents and which defines a mass shooting as a single incident in which at least four people — other than the shooter — are shot.
‘Rats need to be disarmed.
NBC. Presume FF.
nuf’ said
Just celebrating Juneteenth.
By capitalizing the word ‘state’ in the headline, I immediately assumed they were referring to Washington State University, not the state of Washington.
“We don’t know what the motives were or what the intentions were of the shooter and absolutely no idea of the shooters race.“
Liar.
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Really? Almost one a day? I don't remember hearing about almost daily mass shootings. The news media would be going ballistic. Social media would be inundated with such data.
Where do these people get their criteria for "mass shootings"? Is it like including suicide-by-gun as gun violence?
“There have been 307 mass shootings in the U.S. in 2023...
Really? Almost one a day?
I don’t remember hearing about almost daily mass shootings...”
If true, 90% of them are gang related and are reported on only locally if at all.
They have changed the definition of what constitutes a mass shooting. There just wasn’t enough under the traditional definition now the new definition scoops up all the crime and gang shootings. Just like they inflate the number of gun deaths by including suicides. They have also changed the definition of kids to allow up to 19 year olds to inflate those numbers. It is blatant but they get their talking points and get away with it.
This number of mass shootings, is a media creation.
I’ve heard that they define a mass shooting as any event with 3 or more people involved. Defining things that way, they can report a new mass shooting every day.
* Bach?
* County & Western?
* Classic Rock?
* Rap?
I suppose it can easily be any one of them.
It says “electronic dance music” which usually meets a rave with gobs of kids high on ecstasy pills with lots of neon light sticks and pacifiers.
However, I am admittedly old and might be a little outdated in my assumptions.
They say it without saying it.
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