Six Flags amusement park shooting near Chicago leaves 3 hurt

Six Flags amusement park shooting near Chicago leaves 3 hurt

GURNEE, Ill. (AP) — Three people were injured inside a shooting inside a parking a large amount of an amusement park northern of Chicago that sent visitors scrambling for safety, authorities said.

Officers responded concerning 7:50 p.m. Sunday following 911 calls reporting shots fired at Six Flags Great America, concerning 45 miles (72 kilometers) northern of Chicago, the Gurnee Police Department said.

"The shooting ... was not a random act, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by appeared to exist a targeted event that occurred outer external outside the park," police said inside a statement posted to Facebook.

According to an initial investigation, police said a white sedan entered the parking a large amount accompanied by every one one other accompanied by drove inside the way of the park's front entrance. People got not here of the automobile accompanied by every one one other accompanied by report at another anthropoid actuality inside the parking a large amount earlier to driving away, police said.

Additional detail concerning the suspects, including the number of people who fired shots, wasn't unswerving away released. Police were investigating.

A 17-year-old male child from Aurora, Illinois, had a thigh wound accompanied by every one one other accompanied by a 19-year-old woman from Appleton, Wisconsin, had a foot limb wound, police said. They were taken to a medical organization accompanied by every one one other accompanied by their wounds were described while non-life-threatening. A third victim had a lay clasp of on wound accompanied by every one one other accompanied by declined to exist taken to a hospital.

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In a statement, Six Flags Great America said park safety responded unswerving away down accompanied by Gurnee officers.

WGN News inside Chicago spoke accompanied by Laurie Walker accompanied by every one one other accompanied by her daughter, Grace, who were inside the park when the shooting occurred. Walker said they were waiting inside dash for an attraction around 7:50 p.m. when she noticed people running.

"'There is an operative shooter, obtain down, obtain down,'" Walker said she heard someone shouting. "We didn't know what was going on, so we obtain down."

Walker accompanied by every one one other accompanied by her feminine child climbed place of set of two fences to obtain where she could call her husband. Walker told WGN she was intelligent to depart from the park a short while later.

Gurnee is inside Lake County, concerning 5 miles south of the Wisconsin border. It's concerning 20 miles northern of Highland Park, where septet people died inside a pile shooting all over a July Fourth parade.

Six Flags amusement park shooting near Chicago leaves 3 hurt