Two killed after fight escalates to mass shooting in North Carolina park

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Two people were killed in a Monday morning mass shooting in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, according to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation.

The shooting occurred in Leinbach Park near a local middle school at around 9:52 a.m., when the Winston-Salem Police Department said a planned fight between young individuals escalated to a shooting. The Bureau announced around noon that two people died and several others were injured as a result of the gunfire.

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