TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Shooting broke out at an all-night art festival in Trenton, New Jersey, early Sunday, sending people stampeding from the scene and leaving one suspect dead and 20 people injured, a local prosecutor said.
Sixteen the 20 injured were treated for gunshot wounds, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri said Sunday morning. Four of those, including a 13-year-old boy, were in critical condition.
He said that two suspects opened fire around 2:45 a.m. during the Art All Night festival that showcases local art, music, food and films. One of the suspects, a 33-year-old man, was killed. Another suspect is in custody.
Authorities say that about 1,000 people were in the area when the shooting started.
Trenton resident Angelo Nicolo told Philadelphia 6ABC-TV that he and his brother were at the event when they heard loud popping sounds. He said people started running down the street.
“I saw two police officers escort a guy that got shot in the leg. They bandaged him up and whisked him away,” Nicolo said
Local television stations showed numerous police vehicles at the scene. The Trentonian said that the venue for the festival was strewn with broken glass and other debris. The event began Saturday afternoon and was scheduled to conclude Sunday afternoon.
“Guns aren’t the problem. We need to do more about mental health care,” says the same Grand Old Politburo that’s suing to take everyone’s health insurance away.
And gangs! Yeah, that’s it, they were in gangs! Hispanic gangs! Whatever it was, guns had nothing to do with it!
Unless they shooters were people of color or Muslim, I don’t think Trump will even bother to comment.
Sad to see—art festivals are one of the things communities do to help revitalize themselves, and this was the 12th year of this thing. The all-night aspect with music and so forth seemed like an effort to reach beyond the usual crowd that attends art festivals. But I don’t think they’ll be doing it again, after this, unless there’s a resourceful way to insure it. We lose more than lives from this craziness.
Time for Trump to break out the MS-13/Nancy Pelosi scare tweets.
One of our best friends volunteers there and told us she wasn’t sure if she was doing the midnight shift
or waiting to do Sunday morning. I just emailed her to check on her and her husband. What the fuck is happening to us?