16-year-old girl dead, 4 others injured in shooting at Zodiac Park in Memphis

Memphis police are investigating after several people were shot and a 16-year-old girl was killed at a park Tuesday night.

The incident happened around 8:15 p.m. at Zodiac Park in southeast Memphis, not far from the Mississippi state line.

According to police, six suspects wearing bandannas walked up to the victims and began shooting. Five people were shot and a 16-year-old girl was killed at the scene.

Two female victims and a male victim were taken to the hospital in critical condition. Another was taken to a hospital in a private vehicle, while a girl was taken to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in critical condition.

Police said the suspects fled in a tan two-door vehicle, and that the shooting may have stemmed from an ongoing argument.

Chester Anderson and Phillip Glayson were walking when they suddenly heard gunfire, they said late Tuesday.

"I'm guessing 15 to 17 shots," said Anderson, who immediately hit the ground. "They let it go."

Both witnesses said they saw large groups of young people, almost all of them white, fleeing the scene. Some of them, Glayson said, were in upscale cars, including a BMW.

"We just saw a lot of people coming out of the park, running from gunfire," Glayson said. "The whole neighborhood heard the shots."

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