MAXTON, N.C. (AP) — Shootings at a large outdoor Halloween party in southeastern North Carolina early Saturday killed two people — one of them 16 years old — and critically wounded several others, a sheriff said.

Robeson County Sheriff Burnis Wilkins’ office said in a news release that 13 people were shot at the party held at a home in a rural area outside of Maxton , which is about 95 miles southwest of Raleigh near the South Carolina border.

Wilkins said the shootings stemmed from two groups attending the event that attracted more than 300 people, with ages in attendance ranging from pre-teens to about 50.

“There’s a lot of interviews taking place, but apparently there was a confrontation between a couple of groups of people and then gunfire between those two started,” Wilkins told

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