Two people are dead and numerous others injured following a Sunday morning Asheville, North Carolina, shooting in which the “suspects are unaccounted for,” according to FOX Carolina.
The incident occurred around 2:20 a.m. and police were not able to apprehend the person or persons responsible.
Asheville Interim Police Chief Jackie Stepp explained that people were gathered in a parking lot after a popular bar closed and that is where the shots were fired, WLOS reported.
Stepp said, “As we’ve seen in other areas of the city when bars and restaurants close around that time, establishments, people tend to go to their car and you know hangout for a minute before they depart to go home for the evening, I think that’s what was happening here.”
He added, “We do think that this was not a random act of violence.” Rather, law enforcement believes the shooting may have been a retaliatory action for another firearm-involved incident.
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