EDMOND, OK – An 18-year-old victim of Sunday’s mass shooting at Lake Arcadia has died in the hospital, authorities confirm.
The death comes just hours after Edmond police held their first organized press conference about the shooting more than 40 hours after nearly two dozen people were injured by gunfire during a heavily attended party at Lake Arcadia, northeast of Oklahoma City.
Sgt. James Hamm of the Edmond Police Department spoke briefly and answered questions from reporters, but offered little new information and declined to provide any details about possible suspects, even as there still have been no arrests made.
“To protect the integrity of the investigation, we are not releasing any suspect information” Sgt. Hamm said. “This still remains an active and ongoing investigation and we will provide updates when we get them.”
Free Press first reported the shooting Sunday night and provided updates to the original report throughout Monday.
18-year-old victim dies; name withheld
The 18-year-old victim is the first reported fatality from the mass shooting that left 22 other victims suffering from what Hamm described as a range of gun-related injuries.
“We have identified 23 people who sustained firearm-related injuries,” he said during the press conference Tuesday afternoon. “Those injuries range from graze wounds to being hit by shrapnel as well as gunshot wounds.”
Though authorities have confirmed the death of the 18-year-old victim, her name is being withheld at this time at the family’s request.
Fight led to shooting
Among the small bits of new information provided by Sgt. Hamm Tuesday, he confirmed that Edmond police were first alerted to the large-scale, unpermitted event at Lake Arcadia’s Scissortail Campground – billed on social media as a “Sunday Funday” party – in a noise complaint call Sunday night.
While officers were already en route for the noise complaint, the shooting occurred.
Hamm said police believe it was the result of a fight that broke out among partygoers.
“During that event, an altercation started between multiple parties, people who were there attending that event,” he said, “whenever people produced firearms and began to discharge numerous rounds.”
Though a firm number of attendees at the event has remained elusive, Hamm said that “there are potentially hundreds of eyewitnesses that have to be interviewed.”
Hamm confirmed that Lake Arcadia and the Scissortail Campground areas are “in the routine patrol area” and asserted that Edmond police “patrol every area of the City of Edmond 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”
He was asked if police had patrolled that area on Sunday.
“That I don’t know,” Hamm responded.
No suspect information
Following his prepared statement, Sgt. Hamm opened the floor to questions from reporters but provided few new answers, as most of the questions asked were determined to be about the ongoing investigation.
He confirmed that Edmond police have “identified some leads for suspect,” but declined to answer questions about any suspect’s identity, the number of possible shooters, the kinds of guns fired, or the reasoning behind the department’s insistence that there is no public threat, even with the shooter – or shooters – still at large.
“I can’t get into the reason why,” Hamm said, “because that pertains to things that are happening within the investigation that we don’t want to compromise.”
Sgt. Hamm was also asked why he was leading the press briefing Tuesday instead of Edmond Police Chief J.D. Younger.
“The chief is actively involved in this investigation,” Hamm said, “but we do have a Public Information Office. That is our role is to answer these sort of questions and update the public and the media and that’s what we’re here doing.”
Brett Fieldcamp is the owner and Editor in Chief of Oklahoma City Free Press. He has been covering arts, entertainment, news, housing, and culture in Oklahoma for nearly two decades and served as Arts & Entertainment Editor before purchasing the company from founder Brett Dickerson in 2026.
He is also a musician and songwriter and holds a certification as Specialist of Spirits from The Society of Wine Educators.
