Arrests in shooting that killed 3 and hurt 15 at a park in Las Cruces, New Mexico

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A 20-year-old antheral and 2 teens person been arrested connected suspicion of execution successful transportation with Friday night's shooting astatine a parkland successful Las Cruces, New Mexico, that near 3 radical dormant and 15 others hurt, authorities said Sunday.

Tomas Rivas and a 17-year-old antheral were taken into custody Saturday evening and a 2nd 17-year-old antheral was arrested Sunday morning, according to a connection from the metropolis of Las Cruces. Each could look a execution complaint and further charges were pending, the connection said.

It wasn't known Sunday if the defendants had attorneys. A connection was sent to the nationalist defender's bureau successful Doña Ana County inquiring whether its attorneys were representing them.

Gunfire erupted soon astir 10 p.m. Friday astatine Young Park, wherever an altercation broke retired aft an unauthorized car amusement had drawn astir 200 radical to the parkland successful the godforsaken city, constabulary said. Nine antheral and six pistillate gunshot victims ranging successful property from 16 to 36 were treated determination oregon taken to hospitals.

Andrew Madrid, 16, and Jason Gomez, 18, died astatine the country and Dominick Estrada, 19, died aboriginal astatine a hospital, according to the metropolis statement.

Authorities were seeking video from the parkland and tips from those contiguous arsenic the probe continued Sunday.

The constabulary and occurrence departments, on with assemblage groups, offered enactment for victims and their household members Sunday astatine the Las Cruces Convention Center.

“Crisis counseling, spiritual counseling and connecting victims with section resources and fiscal assistance volition beryllium provided,” the metropolis connection said. “Anybody impacted by this calamity is encouraged to attend.”

Between 50 and 60 handgun casings were scattered crossed a wide swath of the park, Police Chief Jeremy Story said Saturday, suggesting determination were aggregate shooters and aggregate weapons.

Fire Chief Michael Daniels said 11 patients were sent to 3 section hospitals oregon the determination trauma center, University Medical Center of El Paso. As of Saturday, helium said, 7 victims were successful El Paso, 4 had been treated and released and the conditions of the different 4 were not known.

Local constabulary were being assisted by New Mexico State Police, the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI and the national Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Story acknowledged Saturday that amerciable car shows astatine Young Park are not uncommon and that the constabulary beingness has been larger successful the past. Understaffing connected Friday, helium said, meant helium had “no units disposable for astir of the night.”

Las Cruces sits connected the borderline of the Chihuahuan Desert on the Rio Grande successful confederate New Mexico, astir 40 miles (70 km) from the U.S.-Mexico border.