周日,在亚利桑那州图森,一辆越野车的司机据称向包括多名急救人员在内的几人开枪,造成至少两人死亡,数人受伤。
枪击事件发生在三个地方,急救人员正在应对不同的事件。
图森警察局长克里斯·马格努斯说,这起事件始于当地时间下午3点45分图森消防局被派往艾琳维斯塔2100街区的一处火场。“几乎”在同一时间,急救人员正在应对附近公园一个不相关的医疗紧急情况。据马格努斯说,就在那时,一名嫌疑人从他的银色越野车上下来,走近救护车并开枪,击中了司机的头部和乘客的手臂和胸部。
20岁的EMT司机“情况极其危急”,而乘客座位上的EMT,一名21岁的女性,情况稳定。
然后,当消防车到达住所时,邻居也在现场试图帮忙。
马格努斯在周日晚上的新闻发布会上说,嫌疑人“到达现场,开始向消防部门人员和邻居开枪”。
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此时,消防队员报警称自己遭到枪击。警方称,一名消防队长在住所被击中手臂,目前情况良好,而一名邻居头部中弹身亡。第二个邻居被子弹擦伤,情况良好。
然后,当一名响应的警察到达现场时,他看到嫌疑人的车辆在该地区。马格努斯说,越野车然后撞上了警官的车,使其失效。这名警察随后下车,与据称的嫌疑人交火,并打了他。这名35岁的嫌疑人目前在当地一家医院,情况危急。
马格努斯说,使事件更加复杂的是,在燃烧的住所内发现了一具尸体。目前,受害者身份尚不清楚,警方表示,他们不确定该人的死亡是否与嫌疑人直接相关。
除了这些事件引起的怀疑之外,当局表示,与燃烧的住宅“有关联”的“两三个”孩子的下落不明。任何有关于这些孩子的信息的人都被要求拨打911,这些信息的描述不能立即获得。
马格努斯周日晚上说,这是一个“非常悲惨、非常可怕的事件,有许多未知因素”。他说,调查将是“漫长而复杂的”。
“我要求我们整个图森社区和我一起思考并为今天下午银湖公园火灾和枪击事件的受害者祈祷,包括来自AMR和图森消防部门的第一反应者。这是一种可怕和毫无意义的暴力行为,”图森市市长雷吉娜·罗梅罗周一在一份声明中说。
Multiple wounded after suspect opens fire on EMTs, firefighters responding to separate incidents
At least two people are dead and several others are wounded after a driver of an SUV allegedly shot at several people Sunday in Tucson, Arizona, including multiple first responders.
The shootings unfolded at three locations where emergency personnel were responding to separate incidents.
Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus said the incident began as the Tucson Fire Department was dispatched to a fire at 3:45 p.m. local time in the 2100 block of Irene Vista. At "pretty much" the same time, EMTs were responding to an unrelated medical emergency in a nearby park. That's when, according to Magnus, a suspect got out of his silver SUV, approached the ambulance and opened fire, striking the driver in the head and the passenger in the arm and chest.
The 20-year-old EMT driver is in "extremely critical condition," while the EMT in the passenger seat, a 21-year-old woman, is listed in stable condition.
Then, as firetrucks arrived to the call at the residence, neighbors were also at the scene trying to help.
That's when the suspect "arrives on the scene and starts firing at both the fire department personnel and the neighbors," Magnus said during a press briefing Sunday night.
At this point, firefighters called police to say they are being shot at. One fire captain was shot in the arm at the residence and is in good condition, while a neighbor died after being shot in the head, police said. A second neighbor was grazed by a bullet and is in good condition.
Then as a responding police officer arrives at the scene, he sees the suspect's vehicle in the area. The SUV then rams the officer's car, disabling it, Magnus said. The officer then exited the car and exchanged gunfire with the alleged suspect, striking him. The 35-year-old alleged suspect is in critical condition at a local hospital.
Magnus said making the incident more complex is the fact a dead body was found inside the burning residence. At this time, that victim's identity is not known and police said they are unsure if that person's death is directly related to the suspect.
Adding to the suspicions around these incidents, authorities said the whereabouts of "two or three" children "associated" with the burning residence are unknown. Anyone with information about these children, of which a description was not immediately available, was asked to call 911.
This is a "highly tragic, really horrific incident with many unknowns," Magnus said Sunday night. The investigation, he said, will be "lengthy and complex."
"I ask our entire Tucson community to join me in thinking about and praying for the victims of this afternoon’s fire and shooting by Silverlake Park, including first responders from AMR and the Tucson Fire Department. This was a horrific and senseless act of violence," Tucson Mayor Regina Romero said in a statement Monday.