Officers Responding to Call Find 'Hellish Situation' as 'Several' Shooters Leave 15 Casualties in Their Wake
One person was killed and 14 people were wounded early Sunday after gunshots rang out inside a St. Paul, Minnesota, bar. Three men have been arrested in connection with the shootings, according to the St. Paul Pioneer…
One person was killed and 14 people were wounded early Sunday after gunshots rang out inside a St. Paul, Minnesota, bar.
Three men have been arrested in connection with the shootings, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Steve Linders, a police spokesman, described the scene inside the Seventh Street Truck Park as “hellish.”
The bar was crowded “when multiple individuals decided to pull out guns, with no regard for human life, and pull the trigger,” he told reporters.
Police Chief Todd Axtell said the city has not seen that level of casualties in one incident during his more than 30 years in the department.
Linders said that after police responded to the 12:15 a.m. call, they found victims outside on the sidewalk and in the street as well as inside the bar, the Pioneer Press reported. He said citizens helped clear a path for first responders to reach the wounded.
“I think about the young woman who died,” Linders said. “One minute she’s having a good time, the next minute she’s lying in her friends’ arms who are trying to save her life and she didn’t make it. I can’t think of anything worse.”
The woman who was killed was pronounced dead at the scene.