1 dead and 9 injured in mass shooting at Dineen Park in Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE – A 17-year-old girl was killed and nine other people injured in a shooting in Milwaukee’s Dineen Park early Monday.

According to a press release from the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office, several dozen people, many of them teenagers, gathered in a parking lot in Dineen Park on Sunday evening for a “car party.”

Some of the participants got into what the sheriff’s office called a “verbal altercation,” and at least one 911 call was made shortly before 12:30 a.m. Monday morning.

Watch: What we know so far about the shooting that left one person dead and nine injured in Dineen Park:

1 dead and 9 injured in mass shooting at Dineen Park in Milwaukee

When officers arrived, they found the 17-year-old girl dead, along with eight other shooting victims and a young woman who had been trampled and suffered injuries to her upper body.

Other victims include a 15-year-old boy, five 18-year-old women and two 18-year-old men.

Eight of the victims are in stable condition, the sheriff’s office said. One of the 18-year-old men is in critical condition. The hitchhiking victim is expected to survive.

Two nearby homes were struck by gunfire as a result of the shooting, one at the corner of N. 66th and W. Vienna and one at the corner of N. 67th and W. Vienna. No injuries were reported at either home.

Investigators are working to determine a motive and locate and identify any suspects, the sheriff’s office said.

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