NASHUA, N.H. (AP) \u2014 A gunman opened fire in a New Hampshire country club on Saturday, killing one person and wounding several others, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The person who died at the Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua was an adult male, according to New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella and Nashua Police Chief Kevin Rourke.<\/p>\n
Authorities said the suspect, who was detained at the scene, was also an adult male, and earlier reports of two shooters were mistaken. Police said there was no further danger to the public. <\/p>\n
Investigators were still working to determine a motive, New Hampshire Senior Assistant Attorney General Peter Hinckley said. <\/p>\n
Information on the wounded victims\u2019 conditions was not immediately available. <\/p>\n
Tom Bartelson of Pepperell, Massachusetts, who was at the country club, described a chaotic scene that unfolded near his nephew\u2019s wedding. He said he heard the shooter say \u201cthe children are safe\u201d and \u201cfree Palestine\u201d and appeared to be targeting someone.<\/p>\n
\u201cGetting together for a dance for the bride and groom and then all chaos went off,\u201d he said. \u201cWe heard about six shots and everybody ducked for cover and next thing you know we\u2019re rushed into safe spots and things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said some people dropped to the ground and attempted to get away from the scene. There was a lot of panic, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were trying to keep family members safe,\u201d he said. \u201cKeep everybody down and try to find safe spots.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another person who was at the scene, Evie O\u2019Rourke of Salem, New Hampshire, said she was still trying to find her son, Robert Decesare of Nashua, in the aftermath of the shooting. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know where he is. He went down. My daughter in law and granddaughter escaped … They saw my son go down and they saw blood, and we can\u2019t find him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Emily Ernst, who was at the scene, said she saw a gunman in all black.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a mask on. We just saw him raise the gun and then we ran,\u201d Ernst said. \u201cI ran through the kitchen for my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aerial video from WMUR-TV showed multiple emergency responders heading to the scene. Later, Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess said he had faith in police to \u201cget to the bottom of this and bring the perpetrator to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI think the message is for every community out there is that no matter how unlikely it seems it can happen where you live.\u201d<\/p>\n
U.S. Rep. Maggie Goodlander said in a statement that she was \u201cclosely monitoring the tragic reports of a shooting tonight at Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua\u201d and that her heart was with the victims, their families and the community. <\/p>\n
Nashua is about 45 miles (70 kilometers) northwest of Boston, just across the Massachusetts border. <\/p>\n
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Whittle reported from Scarborough, Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHUA, N.H. (AP) \u2014 A gunman opened fire in a New Hampshire country club on Saturday, killing one…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":243131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[4219,168,129693,129698,57,4222,129697,129692,129694,2739,991,50,2112,129691,129695,3677,129696,61,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-243130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-domestic-news","11":"tag-emily-ernst","12":"tag-evie-orourke","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-gun-violence","15":"tag-jim-donchess","16":"tag-kevin-rourke","17":"tag-maggie-goodlander","18":"tag-massachusetts","19":"tag-new-hampshire","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nh-state-wire","22":"tag-peter-hinckley","23":"tag-robert-decesare","24":"tag-shootings","25":"tag-tom-bartelson","26":"tag-u-s-news","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}