3 Hurt In Six Flags Great America Shooting, No Arrests Made: Police

GURNEE, IL — Three people were injured in a shooting Sunday night in the parking lot at Six Flags Great America, the theme park said in a statement.

Park officials said the shots were fired from a single vehicle, which immediately drove away. Gurnee Police said in a news release that the shooting took place at 7:50 p.m. and that the department received multiple 911 calls regarding shots fired at the amusement park.

Police said that based on an initial investigation, a white sedan entered the Six Flags parking lot and drove toward the front entrance. Police said the suspects got out of the car and began shooting toward another person in an incident that "appeared to be targeted," police said, and then got back in the vehicle and left the park.

Police said that two people were taken to the Advocate Condell Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. A 17-year-old boy from Aurora was shot in the upper thigh and a 19-year-old woman from Appleton, Wis., was being treated for a gunshot wound to the lower leg, police said.

A third person sustained a shoulder injury and declined being taken to the hospital, police said late Sunday.

Lake County Sheriff's Department Deputy Chief Chris Covelli told Patch there was no indication of an active shooter in the park. He said the sheriff's office is assisting Gurnee police in the investigation.

Some people posted on social media saying police were removing guests from the park, while others reported the park was locked down.

Jamar Tuazon, who was at the theme park, told the Lake/McHenry Scanner he heard gunshots and groups of people, including Tuazon and his family, started to hide. He told a mother, to "take the kids and run" if the shooters came.

"We armed ourselves with big rocks, as big as we could find," Tuazon told the Lake/McHenry Scanner.

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No arrests have been reported in connection with the shooting, and no information on the shooter or shooters has been released. Police are not considering the shooting to be random and continue to investigate the incident. Police said they will release more information as it becomes available.

Patch editor Jeff Arnold contributed reporting to this story