The Sunflower Amusement Park massacre

Sunflower amusement park was opened in the late 40’s it was a huge hit with the locals scoring 300,000 in the first year, unfortunately a tragedy that occurred there doomed the park early on. It was late in the afternoon at the Sunflower Amusement park, but little to the knowledge of others two armed men had forced their way in. These armed men were part of the Springwood mafia and they had been sent to ”deal” with someone how wasn’t paying them their protection money, but it all went horribly wrong and resulted In the deaths of 6 innocent people, 2 police officers and the injuring of 17 others. The men had moved swiftly to the owners office only to find no one in there and out of sheer anger they smashed the office to pieces only to be seen by a police officer who drew his sidearm only to be gunned down by these men. The gunshots were heard throughout the theme park and people began to panic and run for the exits. As more police officers ran towards the shots the mafia members opened fire on the crowd killing 4 and injuring 12 they crossed the road to the fun palace and log flume only to be met by several Springwood police officers. The police officers opened fire and hit one of the mafia members in the shoulder the bullet passed through the mafia members shoulder and into and innocent bystander. As the shootout continued another officer was killed and so was another bystander, the mafia members were spraying bullets and injured another officer and 4 more civilians. The result of the shooting forced the park to up security but the he park closed in late 1946 due to security concern. Trees were planted throughout the park to memorialise the shooting. The two mafia members were aprehended and sentenced to death by electric chair. To peoples joy the park reopened in the early 50’s under a new name and management. The parks attendance numbers were never the same as of now it is scheduled for destruction in 1989 to replace it with a flight school.