At least 6 teens shot — including 17-year-old who may have been gunman — after Milwaukee Juneteenth celebration ends

A༺t least six teenagers were shot Monday afternoon around where Milwaukee’s Juneteenth celebration had just wrapped up, according to police and fire officials.

The shooting happened about 4:20 p.m.🌱 outside Greater Philadelphia Church of God in Christ, according to witnesses and a  taken by a bystander in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, according to local media outlets.

Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffrey Norman said six teens were shot, including a 17-year-♒old who may have been a gunma🍷n himself and is in custody.

Police were still seeking additional suspects who ꦺhadn’t yet been identified.

Police said the victims, four girlsಌ and two boys, range🦂d in age from 14-19.

Norman said꧑ the shooting may have stemmed from a fight among a number of girls and young women, but he didn’t know what sparked the dispute.

The injuries of those wounded varied but did not appear life-threatening,𒁏 the chief said.

“Milwaukee, wh𒅌at’s going on with our children?” Norman wondered aloud at a news conference.

He noted that he has taken part in the city’s June𝔉teenth celebrations for eight years without any such bloody aftermath.

“Parents, guardians, elders,🐷 we need to engage in ensuring that this violence that our children are bringing these streets ceases. No handgun, no weapons of destruction, should be in the hands of our young ones.”

“T💞his is a story t🅷hat plays out too often, and it’s getting really old. Really old,” Norman said.

The violence follo🐠wed a bloody weekend of s🎀hootings across the United States.

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier John🔯son st𒆙ressed that Monday’s Juneteenth observance itself was a safe and growing event, calling the subsequent violence “totally, totally unacceptable.”

“We had thousands and thousands of people here celebrating and bringing themselves together an💫d having a sense of community. That’s a powerful thing. That’s the true story about what this day is,” said Johnsᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚon, a Democrat.

A man who identified himself 🌌as T. Jenkins  that a fight between two women preceded the🐟 shooting.

A young man pulled out a gun an💎d everyone scattered, J🦄enkins said. The man did some of the shooting, he said.

Jenkins provided a𒁏id to a young woman with🍷 a neck wound.

Ther𝔍e was blood coming out of the left 🔯side of her neck, he said.

“I applied pressure to her neck,” he said.

“I tried to keep everyone calm around me.”

A Facebook Live video taken in the immediate aftermath of the shooting shows at least🌟 two young people with gunshot wounds being treated by paramedics on the p❀avement.

The person who filmed the Facebook Live said i༒n the video that a teenage girl or young woman had suffered a gunshot wound to the neck.

The Facebook user tried to comfort her sobbing friend, who was trying to contact h♌er mother.

Only abo🎶ut 20 minutes after the festival had officially ended, hundreds of people were still walking along the street.

Thousands o🍃f people packed King Drive for the festival, which ran from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Vendors selling food and wares lined the street along ꦉwith community organizations offe𒅌ring resources, snacks and free giveaways.

Music thumped from booths and food trucks offering refreshing treats in the heat drew ♋long lines.

Youth dance groups, marching bands and drill teams entertained cꦛrowds in a parade along King Drive earl𒉰ier in the day.

Police officer🔯s were stationed in several places along the route.

Keith Caldwell, another ve♈ndor, described the scene this way: “🎶I just heard commotion, gunshots, people screaming.”

On security at the event, Caldwell talked of the need for gun co🎉ntrol.

“Right now, iꦜt’s like an unco🍌ntrollable situation,” he said.