A drive-by shooting outside California’s Knott’s Berry Farm theme park Friday night left at least one person wounded and three others hospitalized.
KTLA reports gunfire erupted around 9 p.m. outside the front gate of Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Officials transported one gunshot victim to a hospital. Three other people were also treated by paramedics and transported to a hospital.
“We have been made aware of an incident which took place away from Knott’s Berry Farm,” the park said in a social media post. “A victim was assisted by park personnel outside of the park’s gates and transported to a local hospital. The incident is currently being investigated.”
A teenager named Jayden told KTLA it was his friend who was shot by a man who began firing at people as they were exiting the park. “I just ran, because I wasn’t trying to get shot,” he said.
The incident triggered panic inside the park, with guests rushing for the exits over fear of an active shooter. Video from the scene showed guests running as word floated around that there may have been a shooting nearby.
Carol Myers, who was in the park at the time, described the scene as “mayhem.”
“No one knew if they should go toward the front of the park, no one knew if they should go to the back of the park,” Myers told KTLA in a phone interview. “And I feel so bad because there are people outside right now, stopping cars saying, ‘I can’t find my children. I lost my children.’”
Details regarding a suspect or suspects were not immediately available.
