GUNMAN SHOOTS SPECTATORS AT RACE.Byline: Ruby Gonzales and Tim Traeger Staff Writers IRWINDALE - A gunman shot and wounded at least three people late Thursday night during street-legal drag racing drag racing Form of motor racing in which two contestants race side by side from a standing start over a straight quarter-mile strip of pavement. Winners go on to compete against others in their class until only one is left undefeated. at the Irwindale Speedway Irwindale Speedway is a motorsports facility located in Irwindale, California. It features banked, paved 1/2 and 1/3 mile oval tracks. It is mainly used for USAC sprint car and regional NASCAR races. , according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Sgt. Mark Benavides of the Irwindale Police Department. A gunman opened fire about 10 p.m., striking two men and one woman. Paramedics took three people to area hospitals, one in full cardiac arrest cardiac arrest n. Abbr. CA A sudden cessation of cardiac function, resulting in loss of effective circulation. Cardiac arrest A condition in which the heart stops functioning. , another in critical condition and a third seriously wounded, a county fire dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. said. Initial reports indicated as many as six people were shot. The shooting came during ``Thursday Night Drag,'' advertised as a night for anyone willing to pay $20 to compete on an ``eighth-mile street-legal drag strip.'' Spectators paid $10 and could not bring coolers, cans or bottles into the event, which began at 4 p.m. and ended at 10 p.m. About 2,000 spectators were in the stands Thursday night. Police detained at least five suspects, but one reportedly jumped a chain-link fence, ran through the parking lot and escaped. ``At 10:08 p.m., we got a shots fired call,'' Benavides said. ``We got there and found one man shot in the grandstand and two more by the restroom.'' -- City News Service contributed to this report. |
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