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Shock, confusion at Six Flags after shooting wounds two teens

Numerous police and fire departments respond to Six Flag Great America Sunday evening, Aug. 14, 2022, at closing time after a shooting incident left three people injured, two of them suffering gunshot wounds, in Gurnee, Illinois.

When Aisha Tahir went to buy her kids funnel cake at the end of a long day at Six Flags Great America, she saw things scattered about the food hut’s kitchen. People were hiding under the windows.

They feared for their lives after a gunman shot two people in the Gurnee, Illinois, amusement park’s parking lot Sunday night.

“The way people were panicking, it made us feel like the shooter was close by. And when we saw the police entering the park, we thought the shooter was loose somewhere inside,” the Kenosha resident said.

The public shooting was not random and appeared to be targeted, Gurnee police

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