Students' pre-prom gathering turns into deadly nightmare as bullets fly

A pupil was killed, and 4 others were wounded aft gunfire broke retired Friday nighttime astatine a Tennessee parkland wherever teens had gathered for a pre-prom photograph session, authorities said.

Officers responded to the 900 artifact of Key Corner Street — Webb Banks Passive Park successful Brownsville, astir 60 miles northeast of Memphis — and recovered 5 radical suffering from gunshot wounds. All 5 victims were taken to a section hospital, wherever 1 was aboriginal pronounced dead, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) told Fox News Digital.

"TBI peculiar agents are moving alongside the Brownsville Police Department to analyse an evident homicide that near aggregate individuals injured," the spokesperson said.

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Law enforcement officers respond to a shooting country successful Brownsville, Tennessee, wherever a pupil was killed and 4 others were injured. (WHBQ )

Witnesses said that the parkland was crowded with implicit 100 students and galore vehicles for a "photo session" conscionable moments earlier the shooting. Police and exigency crews arrived wrong minutes, according to FOX 13.

Officials person not yet disclosed immoderate accusation astir a imaginable fishy oregon motive.

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Haywood County Schools identified the unfortunate arsenic pupil Saturah Hayes and announced schools would beryllium closed Monday to let students, unit and families clip to grieve.

The schoolhouse territory besides said prom had ended aboriginal pursuing the incident.

A daytime presumption of Webb Banks Passive Park successful Brownsville, Tennessee. (WHBQ )

"Saturah was a hard-working pupil with a affirmative attitude. She was afloat of imaginable and committedness with hopes and plans for the aboriginal that volition present stay unrealized," the territory wrote successful a connection connected Facebook.

"We tin lone anticipation to uplift her household arsenic they effort to enactment done this clip of profound grief. We mourn not lone the nonaccomplishment of a young life, but besides the aboriginal unrealized. She volition beryllium greatly missed."

Haywood County Sheriff Billy Garrett Jr. described the shooting arsenic a "senseless tragic event" that disrupted what should person been a celebration.

"I volition perpetrate this sheriff’s bureau and each our resources, to bring justness for her family. Our region is simply a large spot to unrecorded and is simply a strong, adjacent knit community, particularly successful times similar these," Garrett Jr. said.

TENNESSEE SCHOOL SHOOTER WHO KILLED 1, INJURED ANOTHER IDENTIFIED AS TEEN STUDENT: POLICE

A motion marks Webb Banks Passive Park successful Brownsville, Tennessee. (WHBQ )

Brownsville Mayor William D. Rawls echoed those sentiments, calling the shooting "senseless and heartbreaking."

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"To the household of the loved 1 who was lost, and to those who were injured, I widen my deepest condolences and prayers," Rawls said. "Please cognize that I americium genuinely atrocious from the bottommost of my heart. Our full assemblage mourns with you, and we basal beside you during this incredibly hard time."

The Brownsville Police Department did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.