A search continued on Sunday for two men who appeared to fire guns at each other and in the process shot at least 12 other people at a popular street festival in a historic neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio, the authorities said.
A little after 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, as hundreds were gathered at the Old West End Festival, shots rang out and the crowd scattered in all directions, video posted online showed.
In the footage, which provided a window into the grim aftermath, emergency personnel can be seen tending to victims lying on the grass. In one video, a young man walks down a street lined with Victorian homes, as blood darkens his white shirt and bystanders call for help.
The festival, a two-day event set in the largest collection of Victorian, Edwardian and Arts and Craft homes in the United States, brings live music, food vendors and parades to the northwest corner of Toledo. The event doubles as the kickoff to the Ohio festival season and as the regional kickoff to summer.
“I was at the Old West End Festival yesterday with my family,” Erin Kramer, a Toledo City Council member, said. “This is a fun family event that brings the community together each year. I am sad that it ended in gun violence last night.”
Organizers canceled the remainder of the event.
“Too often we turn on the news and learn of a celebration somewhere that turns into a tragedy,” organizers wrote on social media. “Now, that news comes from our own neighborhood.”
“Many people want to know how we proceed from such a dark place,” they added.
At a news conference on Saturday, the authorities said the victims ranged from ages 14 to 61; several were considered in critical condition.
By Sunday, all 12 victims were in stable condition and showed signs of improvement, according to a police statement. Anthony J. Boff drove to Toledo from Beverly, Mass., for the festival. He said he enjoyed spending Saturday morning with his brother in-law, searching for knickknacks to add to his partner’s thrift store in Massachusetts.
Mr. Boff, 68, said he planned to attend a reggae show at 6 p.m. and arrived at the park early to finish off a slab of ribs. When the gunfire started, he immediately hit the ground.
“I just wanted to stay alive,” he reflected in an interview on Sunday. Bullets sprayed for about a minute, he added.
Mr. Boff said one of the gunmen’s weapons may have fallen in his vicinity. When the shooting stopped, he said he bellowed “gun on the ground, gun on the ground.”
