Five suspects have been arrested in connection with a mass shooting at a “topless pool party” in North Carolina that killed one person and wounded or hurt nearly a dozen others in the melee.

Garon Nathaniel Killian , 20, was taken into custody late Tuesday night and charged with first-degree attempted murder , the first of several arrests that were anticipated in connection with the weekend gunfire, the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office said, adding that Killian was one of at least two people suspected of initiating the mass shooting on Sunday, June 1.

Four more people were arrested on Wednesday and Thursday, the sheriff’s office said, including 22-year-old Zachary Micheal Bates of Morgantown, who along with Killian was charged with attempted first-degree murder. Patrick Lee Tolb

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