According to US mediathe attack happened shortly before midnight. “Fourteen people, to our knowledge, were hit by gunfire and hospitalized,” Inspector DF Pace told reporters overnight. And to add: “Three of these people, two men and one woman, were pronounced dead following arriving at hospitals with multiple gunshot wounds.” For the moment, the identities of the victims are not yet known.
According to the American inspector, the police on the spot “observed several active shooters” in the South Street area and opened fire on one of them, without knowing if he had been hit. “You can imagine there were hundreds of people taking advantage of the neighborhood like every weekend when this shooting broke out.“, continued the inspector to the local media. Still according to the latter, relayed by ABC News, “two firearms, one with an extended magazine” were recovered from the scene of the tragedy.