KSL.com reports that, on Wednesday evening, "2 killed, 6 others injured in shooting at Salt Lake church parking lot." The article begins:
Two people were killed and six were injured in a shooting in Salt Lake City's Rose Park neighborhood on Wednesday evening when a fight broke out in a church parking lot outside a funeral.
The shooter or shooters remained at large as of the latest update from police at 11 p.m.
"The situation still is very fluid. At this point, we know that there are at least eight victims, I can confirm that two of them have died; three of them are critical condition, and three others (are) in unknown condition," said Salt Lake police spokesman Glen Mills.
The shooting is reported as having happened at about 7:36 p.m. at a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 660 N. Redwood Road. "Two Tongan Latter-day Saint wards attend that meetinghouse," stated the article. The suspects fled in a gray or silver car. Per the article, police had not even determined if the suspects had attended the funeral or not. A more recent article, however, indicates that "the shooting erupted from a dispute between people who knew each other and were attending a funeral," but "[a]uthorities say they do not know whether the shooting was gang-related and that they are having trouble getting witnesses to cooperate."
You might quibble with my calling it a mass shooting, but until it is determined to have been gang related, it meets the definition of a "mass shooting". Why are gang related shootings not considered mass shootings I don't know unless it is because it goes against the "narrative" and would paint certain minority groups in a bad light.
More: "Multiple people shot outside church in Salt Lake City as police search for gunman"--Daily Mail. It doesn't really have any more information about the shooting, but has a large number of photographs of the scene of the shooting.
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