St. Paul Bar Shooting Leaves 1 Dead and at Least 14 Wounded

U.S.|One Killed and astatine Least 14 Wounded successful Shooting successful Minnesota Bar, Police Say

One idiosyncratic was killed and astatine slightest 14 others were wounded during a shooting aboriginal connected Sunday greeting wrong a crowded barroom successful St. Paul, Minn., the authorities said.

When the constabulary arrived astatine the bar, identified arsenic Seventh Street Truck Park, soon aft 12:15 a.m., they said they encountered a chaotic scene, with the victims scattered connected the sidewalk, successful the thoroughfare and inside.

“They walked into a hellish situation,” Steve Linders, a spokesperson for the St. Paul Police Department, said during a briefing astatine the country aboriginal connected Sunday morning.

Investigators said that they were searching for respective gunmen and had not yet determined a motive for the shooting, which claimed the beingness of a pistillate successful her 20s. The constabulary did not merchandise the woman’s name.

“One infinitesimal she’s having a bully time,” Mr. Linders said. “The adjacent minute, she’s lying successful her friends’ arms who are trying to prevention her life, and she didn’t marque it. I can’t deliberation of thing worse.”

Fourteen radical were hospitalized with gunshot wounds, said Mr. Linders, who described their injuries arsenic not life-threatening. The constabulary were trying to find if determination were different victims who whitethorn person near the country and sought attraction connected their own, helium said.

Mr. Linders said that respective “good Samaritans” helped thin to the victims until exigency responders could dainty them.

“We had radical successful the metropolis of St. Paul retired connected a Saturday nighttime having a bully clip and we had different radical who decided to propulsion guns with reckless disregard to quality beingness and propulsion the trigger implicit and implicit and implicit and implicit again, and it ended successful tragedy,” helium said.

The Seventh Street Truck Park did not instantly respond to an email seeking remark connected Sunday morning. No 1 answered the telephone astatine the bar, which has a ample nutrient hallway with nutrient trucks inside.

Later connected Sunday morning, Mayor Melvin Carter of St. Paul condemned the violence.

“Our assemblage is devastated by the shocking scenes from past night,” Mr. Carter said connected Twitter. “As our Saint Paul officers enactment to bring those liable for these senseless acts into custody, our enactment to physique much proactive and broad nationalist information strategies is much urgent than ever. We volition ne'er judge unit successful our community.”

St. Paul is approaching different grim milestone for the fig of homicides successful Minnesota’s superior city.

The barroom shooting connected Sunday greeting brought the full fig of homicides for the twelvemonth to 32, according to the police. Last year, determination were 34 homicides, which The Pioneer Press reported tied a grounds acceptable successful 1992.

Representative Betty McCollum, Democrat of Minnesota, who represents St. Paul, lamented the nonaccomplishment of beingness successful a series of tweets connected Sunday morning.

“The epidemic of weapon unit plaguing the Twin Cities has deed america successful St. Paul with a wide shooting lawsuit that tin lone beryllium described arsenic a horror,” Ms. McCollum said. “I cognize our St. Paul assemblage volition travel unneurotic to enactment the victims and their families during this clip of symptom and grief.”