Man in his 20s is dead and six others are injured after mass shooting in upstate New York park

At slightest 1 personification is dormant and respective others were wounded aft gunmen, who a witnesser described arsenic each being nether nan property of 21, opened occurrence astatine a barbecue successful a parkland successful Rochester, New York, connected Sunday. 

Rochester constabulary said they responded to Maplewood Park astir 6:20 p.m. to a ample gathering pinch shots fired and recovered respective group suffering from gunshot wounds. The metropolis astir 340 miles northwest of Manhattan. 

A 20-year-old man was killed, different person, a woman, suffered a life threatening wounded and 5 group were hospitalized pinch insignificant injuries, Capt. Greg Bello said. The personality of nan personification who was killed has not been revealed.  

'At this constituent we don't cognize really galore group were shooting,' Bello said. 'We are trying to activity our measurement done arsenic galore witnesses arsenic we can.'

A video taken by an attendee shows dozens of group enjoying nan bully upwind earlier galore popping sounds are heard, forcing everyone to duck for cover. 

At 1 constituent a sound tin beryllium heard many times saying: 'Keep unit connected it.' 

In an interview pinch WHEC, Rochester Police Chief David Smith said that investigators are still trying to found if nan gunmen were primitively portion of nan group aliases were outsiders. 

'Everyone was having a bully time. There was nary logic to beryllium alarmed aliases deliberation that thing was going to happen. It was a bunch of group having a picnic successful nan park,' Smith told nan station.  

No suspects were successful custody, constabulary said while confirming that they are looking for aggregate gunmen. 

A female who lives adjacent to nan parkland told WHEC that she thought nan noises she heard were firecrackers until she saw group moving from nan scene. 

'I thought it was firecrackers but past erstwhile I saw group moving I knew it was gunshots. As I was coming towards nan beforehand of my house, location was a young woman moving towards maine gasping for air, asking maine to thief her, thief her, thief her. So I lifted my trunk up, sewage her a vessel of water, and sat her down,' Carla Owens Martin said.

Another neighbour described nan segment arsenic being 'pure terror.'

'Looking retired nan window, this full park, which was afloat of group was past moving for their lives. There were group hiding down cars, jumping my fence, crying. It was axenic terror,' a resident told Rochester First. 

Another said of a segment involving 'kids pinch guns drawn.'

 'We looked retired nan beforehand model and location were 2 kids present connected our beforehand structure pinch guns drawn, and past it was benignant of like, "Now what?"' resident Shelley Strong said.  

Rochester's Democratic Mayor Malik Evans, who visited nan scene, said: 'This a calamity what happened today.' 

'The biggest extremity we request is from nan individuals who pulled retired nan guns and started shooting,' nan politician added. 

'That's what we need. I guarantee that pinch a ample number of group present enjoying nan summertime upwind this Sunday, personification present saw something. There are cameras everywhere. We conscionable request a tip; thing is excessively small.' 

The Black Republican Club of Rochester besides released a statement connected nan shooting.

'Don't blasted race, weapon control, gender, aliases Trump for this tragic wide shooting successful Rochester, NY. It's clip to move past nan accustomed scapegoats and reside nan existent issues head-on.'

'We request genuine solutions to nan escalating crime successful our city, not conscionable much pandering to nan achromatic organization pinch claims that it's each owed to Jim Crow and Trump's policies. Let's person an honorable speech astir nan guidelines causes and really we tin efficaciously tackle them,' nan connection publication successful part. 

Anyone pinch footage aliases accusation should telephone 311, 911, email MajorCrimes@cityofrochester.gov, telephone nan Major Crimes Unit astatine 428-7157, CrimeStoppers astatine 423-9300.