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LAS VEGAS (AP) — An overnight shooting in a parking structure outside a Las Vegas Strip movie theater left two people critically wounded and one person with a minor injury, police said Wednesday.
Police don't believe the shooting just after midnight was a random act, but Officer Laura Meltzer
said the shooter or shooters hadn't been identified. She added initial
reports from a police spokesman at the scene that the shooting happened
in the theater lobby were incorrect.
"The theater had nothing to do with it," Meltzer told The Associated Press. "They were not coming from a movie. It was not in the theater lobby."
Investigators believe the
shooting stemmed from an ongoing conflict between members of two groups
that squared off in the parking structure near the UA Showcase 8
theater, Meltzer said. The parking structure lobby has entrances to the
theater and to Las Vegas Boulevard.
It wasn't immediately clear how many shooters there were, but Meltzer said multiple shots were fired.
Police arrived to find one of the
most seriously wounded people in the parking structure lobby and
another in an elevator car on the fifth floor of the six-story parking
structure. Both were reported to be in critical condition at University
Medical Center in Las Vegas. Their names weren't made public.
A third victim was found near the street in front of the elevator
lobby. He was treated at the scene for an injury that Meltzer said
wasn't believed to be life-threatening. The wounded were described as
males, but their ages weren't immediately known.Meltzer said investigators don't believe the confrontation between the two groups was gang-related, but they were still trying to determine the relationship between them.
Police and property security officers closed exits and entrances to the Showcase Mall parking structure for more than two hours while they investigated, the police spokeswoman said.
According to movie show times,
the last features of the night let out shortly before the shooting was
reported. Meltzer said she didn't know if anyone inside the theater
heard or knew about the shooting outside.
"There's no indication in the call that any evacuation was needed," she said.
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