A shooting at a pool party near Hickory that killed a man and injured at least a dozen other people was gang-related, a prosecutor said Friday in revealing new details about the case.

Police have now determined that at least four shooters fired from a hill at 103 people at the party early Sunday , Catawba County sheriff’s Major Aaron Turk told reporters outside the courthouse Friday after bond hearings for five suspects in the case.

In court Friday, Assistant District Attorney Tim Gould put the number of partygoers at 100, up from 80 that was announced in court two days earlier.

“This was gang-related,” Gould told District Court Judge Mark Killian in requesting that four suspects charged with attempted first-degree murder be returned to jail without bond.

“He fired into the crowd,”

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