Fatal Shooting At Thanksgiving Day Football Event In Louisville

BALTIMORE (WJZ/AP) -- Two people were fatally shot on Thanksgiving Day after a shooting broke out in a Louisville, KY Park.

Louisville Police say at around 1:30p.m. Thursday afternoon officers responded to a call of multiple shootings in Shawnee Park. Two black men had been fatally wounded. Four other individuals were taken to University of Louisville Hospital.

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports that the shootings occurred about 200 yards from the annual Juice Bowl football games, which were attended by Mayor Greg Fisher.

Spokesman Chris Poynter says the mayor attends the event every year, and while it was an "alarming" situation, Fisher was never in danger.

Youth games had just ended and two women's teams were in the middle of a flag football game when the shots were fired. Men's games were canceled.

All at the hospital appear to have non-life threatening injuries.

The LMPD Homicide Unit is investigating.

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