Halloween Massacre: Upstate New York Party Shooting Leaves Two Teens Dead And Several Wounded

Halloween is one of the biggest holidays where everyone gets to break loose a little bit, but unfortunately the holiday has a tragic end. It is being reported that there was a shooting in an upstate New York Halloween party that claimed the lives of two teenagers.

According to ABC 7 News, a gunman opened fire on multiple people at a Halloween party in Newburgh early Sunday, killing two teenagers and wounding several others. The victims were identified as 18-year-old Omani Free, a senior at Newburgh Free Academy, and 20-year-old Tabitha Cruz.

The network reports that the shooting occurred just before 1a.m. inside a commercial building at 119 Broadway.

Imani Robinson, a partygoer tells the network that the shooting started after an argument ensued by the DJ booth. The lights quickly went off and gunfire erupted.

"Somebody grabbed me and threw me into one of the rooms in the corner, because there was like a room...like there was a door, and the opened it and was throwing people in there," Robinson said.

Robinson tells the network that the party space had no back door and the front door was their only option for escape.

Omani Free, who was 18 years old, decided to go to the party, about five blocks from her home in Newburgh, when a friend became available on Saturday night and otherwise would have been due home around the time the gunfire broke out, said her mother, Rhonda Valentine-Free.

Valentine-Free tells the network that she had left home for her own social engagement and didn’t know that her daughter decided to attend the party. She says that she and her husband first learned that something was wring when a friend of their 15-year-old son who had been at the party called to say that their daughter had been shot. They immediately went to the hospital, where Omani died hours later.

"She was a sweet girl," Valentine-Free said. "She was my chocolate baby."

Five people were wounded, but none of the injuries are considered life threatening. Authorities are currently looking for a suspect or suspects, who fled the scene.