ENVER (AP) — Ten people were injured in a mass shooting early Tuesday in Denver in an area where basketball fans were celebrating the Nuggets’ first NBA title, police said, reporting the arrest of a suspicious.
The shooting occurred around 12:30 a.m., about three and a half hours after the game, and three of the injured were in critical condition, the city Police Department said in a statement. The suspect was one of seven people with injuries believed not to be life-threatening.
The incident happened about a mile from Ball Arena, where the Denver Nuggets beat the Miami Heat on Monday night to win their first NBA ring.
“As to the motives that led to this altercation that resulted in the shooting, it remains under investigation at this time,” police spokesman Doug Schepman said. “It happened in the area where there was the largest concentration of people celebrating during the evening”.
The area was cordoned off and evidence could be marked in it.
There was a small crowd at the scene of the shooting, he added, but it had “decreased quite a bit by that time.” According to the spokesman, the shooting occurred in a place where many people could have left the bars after the final buzzer.
Police were interviewing witnesses and Schepman described the ongoing investigation as “extensive.”
