Two individuals hospitalized, with one in critical condition following shooting at PRP male football game. | News

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Two persons are in the hospital after a shooting at the Pleasure Ridge Park, Male football sport Sunday night time.

LMPD responded to a name of a hassle run for crowd management at 7:15 p.m.

Just previous 8 p.m., there was a report of photographs from the car parking zone space. When LMPD officers discovered a juvenile male who had been shot a number of instances. They had been taken to UofL Hospital and is in critical condition.

A short while later, a second juvenile arrived at Saints Mary and Elizabeth Hospital. They are anticipated to reside.

Moments previous to the shooting, a PRP participant was being tended to on the bottom with 2:03 left in the sport. After photographs rang out, that participant was nonetheless being tended to with an AED as his coronary heart had stopped. An ambulance was known as to select that participant up.

A Male participant additionally left the sphere with an damage shortly earlier than photographs rang out.

JCPS despatched the following letter to PRP and Male households following the shooting:

Tonight, gunshots had been fired in the car parking zone throughout our football sport at PRP High School. JCPS Police officers at the sport rapidly responded to the car parking zone, and LMPD was known as. Many followers moved below the stands whereas gamers had been escorted to the locker room for his or her security. We are conscious of at least one individual being wounded. The sport was suspended, and folks had been ordered to depart the premises as soon as JCPS Police and LMPD secured the world.We don't tolerate violence in any type. As a group, we should work collectively to help one one other. If your scholar want to speak with somebody about what occurred, our counseling and psychological well being groups are all the time obtainable.

LMPD’s murder unit is conducting the investigation. An LMPD spokesperson stated investigators are pursuing leads, however there isn't any suspect info at this time.

LMPD can also be asking residents in the world to verify residence video techniques for suspicious individuals as they've “good reason to believe” folks concerned in the shooting might need fled via the residential space round PRP High School.

PRP asks that anybody with info or video known as 502-574-LMPD.

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