Several people were injured at a gay pride parade in Washington on Saturday when...
People run on a closed street to escape from what they thought was gunfire at a gay pride parade in Washington, U.S. June 8, 2019, in this still image taken from a video obtained via social media. Petro Kasfikis/via REUTERS
- Several people were injured at a gay pride parade in Washington on Saturday when some in the crowd ran to escape what they thought was gunfire, and a man was later arrested when police found a firearm near him, officials said. Police, at the outset of the incident, received a report of a man with a gun at a park, Washington police Commander Guillermo Rivera told reporters.
“As the officers were going to that scene there was a crowd of people running away from it,” Rivera said. “Some of the individuals in the crowd said that there was a man with a gun and that someone had fired shots.”Seven people were taken to hospitals with non-life threatening injuries they sustained in the disturbance and a number of other people with minor injuries were treated at the scene, Rivera said.
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