In Lexington, Michigan, a homecoming celebration turned deadly when two men opened fire on a crowd, wounding eight people and killing three.
Two 19-year-old boys and a 25-year-old boy were killed when bullets sprayed into a crowd of several hundred people gathered after the Holmes County Unified Schools homecoming football game early Friday night.
Eight injured people were taken to area hospitals, some of whom were airlifted to the capital, Jackson, 60 miles south of the scene of the shooting. According to the Associated Press.
Around 12:30 a.m. Saturday, an argument escalated and at least two youths opened fire on a crowd of 300 youths, Holmes County Sheriff Willie March told the outlet.
“The football team won the homecoming game, so people wanted to go celebrate the victory,” said Holmes County Sheriff Willie March. he told the Clarion Ledger.added, “But others did not have the same intentions.''
“Honestly, it was chaos. The shooting just started and people started running,” March told the magazine, adding that 200 to 300 people gathered on the outdoor trail to celebrate.
The school did not participate in organizing the rally, Sheriff March told the Clarion-Ledger.
His nephew, a co-owner of Indian Creek Trail, was among the injured. told WAPT He had rented it for a party that was scheduled to end shortly before the shooting occurred, police said.
“There was 30:30 left and I was about to comment, 'It's not going to be long,' and then I heard a gunshot,” Johnson told the magazine.
Johnson said there is usually a security guard at events on the Indian Creek Trail, and they have previously confiscated weapons, but this time the guard was allowed to pass. The sound of the gunfire “sounded like a machine gun,” he told WAPT.
The Clarion-Ledger reported that investigators believe the gunmen used a gun equipped with a “switch” that turned a semi-automatic handgun into a selective-fire machine pistol.
“So much innocent blood has been spilled, and that hurts me,” Johnson lamented.
“Now that I've been ordained as a pastor, I want to talk to young people and tell them to love each other.”
“It's just the mercy of God that they weren't shot,” Johnson said of his wounded nephew and son, who was at the scene.
