Fight during birthday party ends with gunfire at Covington park

The Covington police department said a birthday party ended in gunfire over the weekend, with two people having to take cover behind a car.

The incident happened on Sunday at Academy Springs Park.

Police said a man and the mother of his child got into an argument during the party, and it continued to escalate over the person the man brought with him to the birthday party.

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That’s when officers said an unidentified man opened fire on two of the people as they were trying to leave the party, forcing them to take cover behind a car that ended being hit twice by bullets…

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