SEVEN people have been injured in a mass shooting at a popular park, according to cops.
Cops are hunting for the shooters and are probing if the attack was targeted.
Two men are said to be in a critical condition following the horror that unfolded in Lakewood, Washington, on Wednesday night.
Five people were rushed to the hospital, while two went themselves.
Police are yet to reveal a motive behind the shooting that unfolded at Harry Todd Park, and no arrests have been made.
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Families in the park were screaming for help, police said.
“Right now, you know, we’ve had these couple days here where the sun finally came out,” Charles Porche, a Lakewood Police Department cop, said.
“It’s been a gorgeous time for people to get out and enjoy the park, the lake, and then you have something like this that happens.
“It is one of the great tragedies – you don’t want anybody to get shot.”
Officers found several gunshot victims when they accessed the park.
Cops are investigating if the suspects knew their victims.
Police could only reveal that they fled the park, but couldn’t say whether it was by car or on foot.
Cops do not believe that Americans are at risk following the shooting.
“Even if it was a random incident, it was something that happened here,” Porche said.
“This was for whatever reason was their focus today.”
A mass shooting is an incident where there are at least four victims that have been either injured or killed.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been at least 120 mass shootings in the US this year.
SPATE OF VIOLENCE
The US has seen a spate of violence over the course of the Memorial Day weekend.
Two people were killed in a shooting at a Philadelphia park on Memorial Day.
The victims were named as Mikhail Bowers, 21, and Amya Devlin, 23.
Three children between the ages of 15 and 17 were also injured as they were caught up in the horror.
Cops revealed there were at least three shooters, and one gun had been turned into an automatic firearm.
Cherelle Parker, the Philadelphia mayor, described the shooting as a “heinous act.”
“This was wartime ammunition that was just opened on Philadelphians and those who were here in our city,” she said.
A wave of Memorial Day weekend violence saw at least 10 people killed and 66 injured across the country.
Eleven people were injured in a shooting that happened on a party boat in a remote South Carolina town.
Locals initially thought the shots were fireworks.
And, six people were injured in a shooting in Colorado Springs.
Cops have arrested a man, 25, and he has been charged with attempted murder.
