Teen arrested in shooting at amusement park in Pa.
Three people were hurt in September incident
WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. – A 15-year-old has been arrested in last month’s shooting at a western Pennsylvania amusement park that wounded three people, including two teenagers.
Allegheny County and West Mifflin police said last week the teenager is being charged as an adult with aggravated assault, reckless endangering and firearms crimes in the Sept. 24 gunfire at Kennywood Park on the opening night of the park’s Phantom Fall Fest.
Park officials said the late Saturday night shooting followed an altercation between two groups of teenagers near the Musik Express ride at the park in West Mifflin, southeast of Pittsburgh. A 39-year-old man and two 15-yearold boys were taken to hospitals with leg wounds, authorities said.
Investigators said evidence recovered at the scene indicated there were two guns fired, one of them by the teenager arrested, who was also grazed on the thigh by a bullet. Authorities are searching for a second suspect, which Christopher Kearns, the county police superintendent, said is “most likely” a juvenile.
Kennywood closed for the day after the shooting and announced new security measures including more police, more security along perimeter fences, limits on bag sizes and masks covering faces and requiring adult chaperones for all juveniles at all times during the Fall Fest, scheduled to run until mid-October.
Kearns said it remains unclear how the weapons got into the park, and investigators are still looking at the possibility that the weapons were tossed over the park fence or carried by someone jumping the fence.