At least nine people were shot in downtown Denver as people celebrated the Denver Nuggets’ NBA Finals victory early Tuesday, police said. Three of the victims are in critical condition, and a suspect is in custody, police said.
All nine of the gunshot victims, as well as the suspect, were transported to a hospital, Denver police spokesman Doug Schepman said early Tuesday.to celebrate the Nuggets’
first NBA title, police said. “It did occur in the area in which we saw our largest crowd gather earlier in the night,” Schepman said when asked whether the shooting was connected to the celebrations. Schepman said that a “smaller crowd” was in the area when the shooting took place and that authorities were able to take a suspect into custody “pretty quickly” because of the police presence downtown.as “complex” and “ongoing,” adding: “Preliminary info indicates multiple shots were fired during an altercation involving several individuals.”
It was not immediately clear whether any of the people directly involved in the altercation were in the area to celebrate the Nuggets’ victory.
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