Gunfire erupted at a Denver pot celebration

[Tom Shady]

Two injured in shooting at Colorado pot rally | kens5.com San Antonio

DENVER — Gunfire erupted at a Denver pot celebration Saturday, injuring two people and scattering a crowd of thousands who had gathered for the first 4/20 counterculture holiday since the state legalized marijuana.

The man and woman who were shot were expected to survive, and police were looking for one or two suspects, said Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson. Police asked festival attendees for possible photo or video of the shootings, and had no immediate motive.

Witnesses described a scene in which a jovial atmosphere quickly turned to one of panic at the downtown Civic Center Park just before 5 p.m. Several thought firecrackers were being set off, then a man fell bleeding, his dog also shot.

"I saw him fall, grabbing his leg," said Travis Craig, 28, who was at the celebration, saw the shooting and said he used a belt to apply a tourniquet to the man's leg.

"He was just screaming that he was in pain, and wanted to know where his girlfriend was. She was OK. And then the cops showed up real quick, like, less than a minute. They put him on ambulance and left."

The annual pot celebration this year was expected to draw as many as 80,000 people after recent laws in Colorado and Washington made marijuana legal for recreational use.

A sizable police force on motorcycles and horses had been watching the celebration since its start earlier Saturday. But authorities, who generally look the other way at public pot smoking here on April 20, didn't arrest people for smoking in public, which is still illegal.

 

[88m3]

heard about it yesterday

 

[Mowgli]

People get shot ever day.

 

[stealthbomber]

it was prolly over some bad weed too

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

can't we all just like, get along, man?

 

[NovelThug]

Looking at who would have a motive, it's clear that the shooter was hired by an exec in the alcohol or tobacco industry. Or both industries.

Nope, I'm not a psychic or a detective. Just a smart mf.

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

Glad no one was killed

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

The weed do make a nikka paranoid sometimes...


No harm no foul

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

BUT THIS IS NOT CALLED TERRORISM?

 

[daze23]

...then a man fell bleeding, his dog also shot.

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

BISMILLAHIR RAHMANIR RAHEEM. WE MUST AVOID SMOKING MARIJUANA AS IT IS AN INTOXICANT AND IT IS SINFULL TO GET INTOXICATED. I URGE EVERYONE TO AVOID SMOKING MARIJUANA SO THAT THIS DOES NOT LEAD YOU INTO THE HELLFIRE AND SO THAT YOU WONT EVEN BE IN A POSITION TO HAVE TO REPENT AND ASK THE CREATOR FOR FORGIVENESS.

 

[daze23]

BISMILLAHIR RAHMANIR RAHEEM. WE MUST AVOID SMOKING MARIJUANA AS IT IS AN INTOXICANT AND IT IS SINFULL TO GET INTOXICATED. I URGE EVERYONE TO AVOID SMOKING MARIJUANA SO THAT THIS DOES NOT LEAD YOU INTO THE HELLFIRE AND SO THAT YOU WONT EVEN BE IN A POSITION TO HAVE TO REPENT AND ASK THE CREATOR FOR FORGIVENESS.

I think people should avoid shooting each other

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

I think people should avoid shooting each other

PEACE.

 

[Rigamortus]

Apparently this is the guy the cops are looking for.

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

I FEEL SAD FOR THE PEOPLE THROWING THERE LIVES AWAY TO SMOKE MARIJUANA.