{"id":487309,"date":"2026-06-07T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487309\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:52:10","slug":"police-search-for-suspects-after-12-people-shot-at-us-festival-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487309\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for suspects after 12 people shot at US festival \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">At least a \u200cdozen people were wounded on Saturday in Toledo, in the midwestern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/us\/\">US<\/a> state of Ohio, as two people traded gunfire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Two of the wounded are in a critical condition, police said at a news conference. The \u200bvictims ranged in age from 14 to 61, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The incident involved two individuals shooting at each other, police said. \u201cI\u2019ve been to a lot of scenes, but this \u200bis way over the top,\u201d police lieutenant Dan Gerken told reporters at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A search \u2060remains underway for any suspects in what police deputy chief Joseph \u200cHeffernan \u200ccalled \u200ba \u201cpretty active\u201d investigation. \u201cWe do have some evidence and we\u2019re following up on some leads,\u201d Heffernan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Investigators are talking \u2060to multiple people and \u200breviewing camera footage, Gerken said. George Kral, \u200bdirector of public safety for Toledo, made a public plea for cell \u200cphone footage that can help the \u200bpolice find the suspects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI know there is information out there,\u201d Kral \u2060said. \u201cPlease help us help you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Officers \u2060were dispatched \u200bat about 5.37pm following a report of a person shot near the Old West End Festival, the Toledo Police Department said in a Facebook post, adding that \u201cmany victims have been transported to nearby medical facilities for treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Several hundred people were at the event, Kral said. \u201cThis is one of the most iconic festivals in Toledo, \u200cand it\u2019s a \u2060shame that something like this had to ruin it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Not including the Toledo incident, the Gun Violence Archive website has \u200crecorded 171 mass shootings in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/united-states\/\">United States<\/a> this year. The site defines a \u200bmass shooting as an incident with at least \u200bfour people injured by gunfire, excluding the shooter. \u2013 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least a \u200cdozen people were wounded on Saturday in Toledo, in the midwestern US state of Ohio,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,115,90],"class_list":["post-487309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}