Three people were injured, including a fan, in a shooting outside the third-base gate of Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., suspending the game between the Nationals and San Diego Padres late Saturday.
The victims went to local hospitals, the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department posted on Twitter.
Fans hearing gunfire fled their seats and sought shelter in the bottom of the sixth inning, CNN journalists at the game reported.
“I just want to assure the public that at no time during this incident were individuals inside the stadium attending the game in any kind of danger. This was not an active shooter incident and it’s not being investigated as such. Everything took place outside the stadium,” Ashan Benedict, executive assistant chief of police for DC’s Metropolitan Police Department, said.
Fans at the #Nationals/Padres game are asked to remain in the stadium due to an action outside Nats Park. Have seen multiple tweets of reports of a active shooter outside of the stadium pic.twitter.com/iCCjrgypKm
— Mismatch (@MismatchSports) July 18, 2021
The female fan who was shot is expected to recover, Benedict said. Two other people wounded in the shooting were associated with the recovered vehicle and were questioned by police in the hospital, according to Benedict.
A person in one car pulled beside another and they engaged in gunfire, police told WUSA-TV. The cars sped down South Capitol Street, with one vehicle stopped by police. The second vehicle has not been recovered.
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A message on the scoreboard shortly after the shooting initially told fans to remain inside the baseball park.
“We held shelter in place for approximately 10 to 15 minutes. At that time we said fans were allowed, not that they had to, but they were allowed to exit through Center Field Gates and Right Field Gates on the other side of the stadium, because MPD had let me know that it was safe enough that they could go outside, out of the gate that way,” Scott Fear, vice president for public safety and security for the Washington Nationals, told reporters.
“Hope everyone is safe! Just keep the prayers up thank you everyone that help in the front line! God bless,” San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. posted on Twitter.
Hours earlier. a shooting claimed the life of a 6-year-old girl and injured five other people in D.C.
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Washington DC—Washington Division of Chicago.
Democrat Central—are the chickens coming home to roost? How are all those gun control laws working out?
“I just want to assure the public that at no time during this incident were individuals inside the stadium attending the game in any kind of danger. ” How comforting. People can’t even go and watch a baseball game without this nonsense? You better start doing something about the damned criminals and leave the gun control idiocy alone. These lawbreakers are getting more and more brazen and callous. The number of children getting shot and killed is on the rise. As the late Marvin Gaye sang: “Oh-Oh, mercy, mercy me—Ah, things ain’t what they use to be”.
Gon control laws were NEVER EVER about reducing crime. BUT CONTROLLING how we normal folks, can gain access to guns, and LIMIT HOW we can defend ourselves…
This must be the insurrection in Washington DC, that the Democrat communists are talking about. Criminals in Washington DC are not punished for the crimes they commit and they are running the streets.
Maybe it was the guy who shot Ashley Babbitt just engaging in more target Practive,,,,,,we just will never know because when the Biden Crime family runs the town the real criminals never get caught or when they do, never get prosecuted. There could be a video of the crime on Hunter’s Laptop and still the media would make it dissappear. To Joe it’s “Never let a crisis go to waste, or a potential criminal who votes for the party of crime go to jail.”
Which is why i say, WHY KEEP PAYING MILLIONS TO keep all these ‘lawmakers’, millions more for all the judges and LE officials in jobs, IF THEY ARE NOT GOING TO LET OUR LAWS be enforced!?
Where’s the security footage Where is the description of the suspect. ??
IF he was white, we’d have ALREADY HEARD ABOUT IT.. BUT since they are deliberately keeping quiet, you can BET IT WAS either black or one of those ‘live loving illegals’.