DALLAS — One person was seriously injured and several others were wounded following a shooting early Sunday outside a party venue in South Dallas, police said.
Officers responded about midnight to The Space Dallas to reports of a shooting, Dallas police said.
Police at the scene told WFAA-TV that 10 people had been injured and multiple were shot. Dallas Fire-Rescue told WFAA crews took four ambulances of people to hospitals.
One person was reportedly in critical condition, police said Sunday afternoon. The conditions and injuries of the other victims were not known.
Police have not said whether an arrest has been made.
Joe Morgan, 55, was working crowd control at the venue Saturday night, where a group of teens were hosting a spring break party, he said. Morgan said hired security for the event confronted some of the patrons before he heard the sound of multiple guns being fired from across the street.
Morgan said “chaos” erupted, and he was trampled by people fleeing from the party.
“A lot of the kids were helping the other kids,” Morgan said in the aftermath of the gunfire. He recalled seeing people shot in the chest, thigh, arm, lower leg and shoulder.
About 11 a.m. Sunday Morgan was raking up debris — broken glass, an abandoned cellphone and beer cans — from bloodied grass outside the venue. When asked why he’d stayed to clean up, even after investigators had cleared the area, he said: “This is my neighborhood.”
About a block of street was taped off for most of Sunday morning around the venue. More than 70 police markers indicating evidence and shell casings were scattered throughout the area, among police cars and uniformed officers. Shoes, hats and emptied bottles were thrown across the venue’s lawn and in the parking lot of the convenience store next door.
No additional information about the shooting was immediately available.
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(Dallas Morning News staff writer Krista Torralva contributed to this report.)
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