Police are searching for the two suspects who fired shots during the 4/20 pot rally in Denver’s Civic Center Park on Saturday, injuring three people and causing thousands of festival-goers enjoying the jovial atmosphere to flee in panic.
A man and woman, between 20 and 30 years old, were shot in the leg, Denver police tweeted. Their injuries were considered non life-threatening.
A third victim, a juvenile, was grazed by a bullet and walked into a nearby hospital, police tweeted.
A dog, belonging to one of the victims, also appeared to have been grazed or shot and was seen limping from the scene. Several other people suffered some minor injuries from running or being trampled, according to witnesses who talked to 7NEWS.
Police asked those attending the rally for possible photo or video of the shootings, and had no immediate motive for the shooting.
“Everybody in this world has a camera nowadays, so if anybody has any pictures that might assist us, we’d like those as well,” said Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson.
AIRTRACKER7 was over the area at the time of the shooting and streamed video of the crowd scattering and one man on the ground, surrounded by police officers. Several police motorcycles were parked nearby and paramedics arrived a few moments later to transport the man to Denver Health.
7NEWS reporter Russell Haythorn said he heard “four to five shots fired” at about 5:02 p.m. and the ambulances arrived while he was live in the 5 p.m. newscast.
Kyle, a witness who was next to the outdoor Greek theater when the shots were fired, said, “lots of people had different ideas of what was happening. Some people were yelling ‘Explosion!’ some people were yelling, ‘Gunshots!’ We couldn’t really find if it was coming from the stage or from the side because there were just so many people literally just running at people.”
