Florida bystander shoots gunman who opened fire at festival

TITUSVILLE, Fla. – A bystander who was lawfully carrying a firearm shot a gunman who had started firing at a back-to-school festival along Florida’s Space Coast.

Florida Today reported Monday that the gunman was shot in the head and airlifted to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Police haven’t yet identified the gunman from Saturday’s shooting at the “Peace in the City” festival in Titusville.

Authorities say he got into a fistfight earlier in the day and returned to the park with a gun and opened fire. School supplies were handed out at the festival and there were around 150 people in the area when the shooting started.

The bystander was co-operating with investigators and wasn’t expected to face charges.

No one else was injured.

Titusville is near Cape Canaveral on Florida’s Atlantic Coast.