Shooting at lake near Oklahoma City sends at least 12 people to hospitals

EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — A shooting Sunday nighttime astatine a enactment astatine a water adjacent Oklahoma City sent slightest 12 radical to hospitals, according to constabulary and infirmary officials.

Edmond constabulary spokesperson Emily Ward said authorities received reports of shots being fired astatine astir 9 p.m. astatine a gathering of young radical adjacent Arcadia Lake. She said precocious Sunday that nary arrests had been made yet.

“This is evidently a precise terrifying concern and we recognize the interest from the nationalist and those progressive and we are moving highly hard to find the suspects,” she said.

“We’re benignant of each implicit the metro speaking with victims and witnesses,” Ward said.

She said that 10 radical were taken to hospitals and others drove themselves. She said victims were successful “various conditions.”

Nine radical were astatine Integris Health Baptist Medical Center successful Oklahoma City and 3 were astatine Integris Health Edmond Hospital, according to a infirmary strategy spokesperson. The spokesperson said the patients were each inactive being assessed precocious Sunday night.

While constabulary did not supply details astir the party, a flyer seen connected societal media aft the shooting suggested that an lawsuit called Sunday Funday had been scheduled adjacent the water Sunday evening.

Arcadia Lake, located astir 13 miles (21 kilometers) northbound of Oklahoma City, is an artificial reservoir utilized for flood power that is besides a fashionable recreational spot that offers fishing, boating, picnicking and camping. It's located successful Edmond, an Oklahoma City suburb with astir 100,000 residents.

Forty years ago, Edmond was the tract of 1 of the deadliest workplace shootings successful U.S. history. On Aug. 20, 1986, postal idiosyncratic Patrick Sherrill changeable 20 co-workers, sidesplitting 14 of them. He past killed himself.

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Stengle reported from Dallas.

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