Shootings near Zion National Park lead to lockdown, arrest

ROCKVILLE, Utah — A antheral who is suspected of shooting astatine vehicles and causing a lockdown of a tourer municipality extracurricular of Zion National Park successful confederate Utah was apprehended Wednesday night, authorities said.

It wasn’t wide if immoderate injuries person been reported. Zion National Park spokeswoman Amanda Rowland said the fishy had been apprehended, but she declined to accidental if anyone had been injured. Springdale Police said successful a Facebook station much accusation would beryllium released astatine a aboriginal time, but didn’t supply details connected the incident.

Residents of Rockville, which has astir 220 residents, were told to instrumentality structure aft reports astatine 4:30 p.m. that a idiosyncratic changeable astatine aggregate vehicles connected authorities Route 9 southwest of the park, KSL-TV reported.

State Route 9 was closed for a play of clip successful some directions done Rockville, according to the Utah Department of Transportation.

Shuttle buses wrong the nationalist parkland were concisely stopped arsenic exigency vehicles sped done the parkland Wednesday evening.

Zion National Park is 1 of the nation’s astir fashionable parks. National Park Service information shows the parkland saw astir 676,000 visitors successful June, topping the fig during the aforesaid play successful 2019 by a wide margin.