Chaotic shooting incident in Tennessee leaves three dead

• Gunfire erupts early Sunday in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
• More than a dozen people wounded.
• Police say there is “definitely more than one shooter” involved.

According to authorities, gunshots erupted early Sunday in a Tennessee city, killing three people and injuring more than a dozen others when fleeing vehicles crashed with bystanders.

The bloody incident came barely two hours after a separate mass shooting in Philadelphia left three dead and 11 wounded.

“At this time we can confirm 14 gunshot victims and three victims that were struck by vehicles that were attempting to flee the scene,” Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy told reporters.

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“Three fatalities have been confirmed, two of which are related to gunshot wounds and one of which is related to injuries sustained after being struck by a vehicle.”

She said the wounded included at least one juvenile, and that several victims remained in critical condition.

Murphy said there was “definitely more than one shooter” involved in the incident near Mary’s Bar and Grill in a downtown section of Chattanooga, a city of 180,000.

As of midday Sunday, no one was in custody.

“This is a very complex situation,” Murphy said.

Chattanooga’s latest eruption of violence came just a week after six people were wounded in another shooting in the city.

In recent weeks, mass shootings in the United States have left scores of people dead, including disasters at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.

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