12 Injured In Shooting At GA Skate Park

MACON, GA — A shooting injured 12 people during a party at a Macon skate park Sunday, Bibb County authorities said.

The shooting occurred shortly after midnight at Carolyn Crayton Park, according to the Bibb County Sheriff's Office.

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Partygoers were gathered at the local skate park when another group of people crossed the street, authorities said. During an exchange of words, authorities said members of both groups pulled out guns and shot at each other.

Deputies were on their way to the scene when they received reports of several people arriving for treatment at a local hospital, authorities said.

Initially, the sheriff's office said 11 people were injured - two of them critical but stable.

However, authorities later said they learned a 19-year-old man had arrived at the hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Investigators determined the man had been shot at the gathering, authorities said.

The man was stable as of Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

Also injured in the shooting were four 18-year-old men, five 17-year-old boys and two 18-year-old women, authorities said. One of the 18-year-old men and one of the 17-year-old boys were critical, authorities said.

The hospital's emergency room was placed on lockdown due to the large amount of vehicles, as well as the number of family and friends of those injured, at the hospital, authorities said.

Investigators took seven vehicles to their crime lab for investigation, authorities said. These included four that had been used to take victims to the hospital and three that were left at the park.

The sheriff's office's Criminal Investigation Division interviewed 10 witnesses, authorities said.

As of Sunday, no one had been arrested in the case.