New Jersey arts festival shooting leaves 22 wounded, 1 suspect dead

Police crime-scene tape keeps people away from the brick Roebling Wire Works building, background, in Trenton, N.J., hours after a shooting broke out there at an all-night art festival early

(Image credit: Mike Catalini/The Associated Press)

last updated 17 June 2018

A shooting early Sunday at an all-night arts festival in Trenton, New Jersey, left 22 people injured and one of the two shooting suspects dead. The other suspect has been taken into custody. Among the wounded, four are in critical condition, one of them a 13-year-old boy. Some of those hurt were not shot but were injured in a stampede that occurred as festival patrons attempted to escape the violence.

The suspects have not been identified. Mercer County prosecutor Angelo Onofri reported later Sunday the shooting was linked to a "neighborhood beef" and had no connection to terrorism. Some eyewitnesses reported an argument and fistfight at the scene before gunfire rang out. "It absolutely could have been worse given the confined space and the number of shots that appear to have been fired," Onofri said.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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