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No arrests have been made over the shooting outside the Paycom Center shortly after the Oklahoma City Thunder won Game 7 of the NBA Finals, police said.
A boy, who was 14 at the time, was hospitalized after being shot four times in the leg. Police did not release his name.
Shots were fired at 10:35 p.m. June 22 on the east side of Scissortail Park as fans filled the streets after the Thunder’s victory over the Indiana Pacers, police reported.
“It had nothing to do with the Thunder game whatsoever,” a police spokesman, Master Sgt. Gary Knight, said Thursday, July 3.
Witnesses blamed the shooting on a stolen belt, police said in an incident report released Thursday.
“Several … persons were detained and interviewed by Detectives and Officers,” a police detective wrote in the report. “In summary, several juveniles were in an argument over a stolen belt that led to a further altercation when the victim was shot.”
The victim told police at the hospital that he was in the park with his 16-year-old brother, according to the report. He said his brother “may have been in a fight with some other people and at some point he got shot.”
The victim also said “he did not know anything about a belt being part of the fight.”
The police detective wrote the victim “appeared to not want to fully cooperate with me.”
The victim described the shooter as being between 16 and 25 and wearing a face mask, a long sleeve shirt and black pants.
A person matching an earlier description of the shooter was detained on the west side of the park, according to the police report. The victim looked at a photograph and “said that person was not the person who shot him.”
Violence has become commonplace during celebrations after major sporting events across the country. The Scissortail Park shooting was the only major incident after the Thunder victory.
Two years ago, riot police in Denver had to break up a brawl after the Nuggets won their first championship. Later that night, 10 people were injured in a shooting.