VIDEO: Police reveal what led to mass shooting at MLK Day event

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A shooting at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event left eight people wounded on Monday evening in Fort Pierce, Florida, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office.

The shooting broke out around 5:20 p.m. near Ilous Ellis Park following a “disagreement of some sort” between two groups of people, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office said.

An “MLK Car Show & Family Fun Day” was being held at that park from noon to 6 p.m., according to the City of Fort Pierce.

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Chief Deputy Brian Hester said at a press conference, “It was mass chaos, as you can imagine, when shots rang out. There were 1,000-plus people here at the event. And as the shots rang out, people were just running in all directions.”

He continued, “There were people laying behind cars laying behind anything they could lay behind. It’s kind of hard to tell who was a victim and who was just hiding at that point as our deputies did start to render aid to multiple people. There were people in the crowd that were rendering aid as well. And then there were some people that were loading people up in cars and taking them to the hospital as well.”

Good Morning America tweeted Tuesday, “Urgent investigation after eight people injured in mass shooting at MLK Day event in Fort Pierce, Florida. @victoroquendo reports.”

Urgent investigation after eight people injured in mass shooting at MLK Day event in Fort Pierce, Florida. @victoroquendo reports. pic.twitter.com/zsqLwlPSAp

— Good Morning America (@GMA) January 17, 2023

Florida shooting at Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in Ft. Pierce leaves eight people wounded

Spoiler: Not white supremacists https://t.co/UcAVNvDjrU

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) January 17, 2023

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