According to multiple media reports and eyewitness accounts, at least five people were shot late Saturday night in downtown Fort Myers. He said four shooting victims were transferred to Lee Memorial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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As the first sounds of gunfire reached festivalgoers, someone said they heard “firecrackers”, Naples News reports.
The shooter was at large early Sunday morning, police said. Emergency services arrived at the scene to attend to a man lying motionless on the ground.
Police are canvassing the area for witnesses.
Video footage shows dozens of people running and screaming, as well as what appears to be festival attendees clashing with police. It wasn’t clear if the shooting involved participants of the event, but organizers said it occurred “within the footprint” of ZombiCon.
ZombiCon is a charity event, described on its website as “not only about raising the dead, but about raising funds for the community”.
“We take the safety of our patrons very seriously and take precautions in hiring security and police officers for our annual event”, the organizers, Pushing DaiZies, Inc., said, in a statement posted on Facebook.
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People dressed as zombies participate in Zombiecon, an annual zombie crawl or march through the streets of Manhattan, in New York, October 16, 2010.
