Gunfire broke retired astatine a Juneteenth solemnisation Saturday nighttime successful Tulsa, Oklahoma, sidesplitting 1 idiosyncratic and wounding 7 others, according to constabulary and the organizers of the event. No arrests person been made.
The 2025 Tulsa Juneteenth Festival took spot successful the city's Greenwood district, historically location to the affluent assemblage known arsenic "Black Wall Street" and, now, portion of the Oklahoma State University campus. It consisted of a bid of programs held implicit aggregate days, with a runway amusement scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m. section clip Saturday evening. A nationalist vacation observed connected June 19 each year, Juneteenth commemorates the extremity of slavery successful the United States and celebrations astir the state thin to beryllium weeklong.
Officers moving astatine the Tulsa festival heard gunshots astatine astir 11 p.m. Saturday, portion the lawsuit was inactive busy, the Tulsa Police Department said, adding that "chaos erupted arsenic radical began moving successful aggregate directions."
A 22-year-old antheral was killed successful the shooting, according to the constabulary department. Seven others were injured, including a 17-year-old and an aged woman. Police said each were taken to section hospitals for treatment. At slightest 1 24-year-old antheral was hospitalized successful captious information aboriginal Sunday morning, according to police.
Police responded to a shooting that broke retired during a engaged Juneteenth solemnisation adjacent downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, connected Saturday night.
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Neither the unfortunate nor immoderate of the injured radical person been named publicly. Police said they judge astatine slightest 2 antithetic shooters are responsible, but nary arrests person been made, and their intended targets were unclear. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation was assisting Tulsa constabulary successful what the section called "a precise progressive investigation."
The organizers of the Juneteenth festival acknowledged determination had been a shooting successful a connection released precocious Saturday night.
"We person been made alert of a shooting that occurred this evening during the Tulsa Juneteenth Festival. Our on-site information and aesculapian teams responded immediately, and we stay successful adjacent connection with the archetypal responders," they said successful the statement.
"We are actively cooperating with the Tulsa Police Department and different instrumentality enforcement agencies arsenic the probe continues. Our of respect for those impacted, each programming is presently canceled. Please support our assemblage successful your prayers. We volition stock further updates arsenic much accusation becomes available."
CBS News contacted Tulsa constabulary for further comments.
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