Gallup NM Shooting Incident Explained
This ceremony was established back in 1992 and it is held to highlight the native Americans and Indigenous heritage including the procession as a part of the celebrations. The celebration included many people who gathered in order to celebrate the parade. This parade is one of the longest-running celebrations and New Mexico’s oldest celebrations as well. The celebrations this year included musical concerts, a rodeo, and a parade as well which was held from the 4th of August to the 14th of August for 11 days. As per the witnesses and the videos that were released online, a brown-colored SUV was seen getting closer to the parade where there were many people enjoying the celebrations. The SUV entered the area where there were a bunch of people and it went over many people, including two policemen as well.
What Happened In Gallup NM Today?
As the incident occurred a day ago, police have not specified how severe the injuries occurred but they have said that there were no fatalities in the incident. As soon as the police coped with the situation, they carried the injured people to the hospital and some sources even said that some were treated on the site itself. When the driver was going through the people, many got hit by the car which was uncontrollably going through many people but eventually, some people tried to stop the car and they got the guy inside the car out. The suspect is as of now under arrest and it has been said by many witnesses through social media posts that the driver seems drunk and was not in a stable state of mind. Several videos from the incident came up as there were people recording the celebration, they also recorded the incident and a brown SUV was seen getting closer to the parade which went through the crowd.
Who Is The Shooter?
New Mexico State police have arrested the driver of the car. New Mexican State police have released a statement online that they are investigating the issue and hopefully there are no fatalities reported until now. There were a lot of people injured during the incident. One of the netizens who were there at the time of the incident wrote on Twitter saying that they gathered at the parade to enjoy themselves and cherish the communities. Some of them warned online about the incident and asked others to check up on the families if they were in the parade. One of them wrote that a nice evening was turned into misery because of the drunk driver.
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