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Chaos erupted across the US on Saturday, with three separate mass shootings threatening to snuff out dozens in Virginia, Kentucky and Chicago.

In Kentucky, five people were shot, one fatally, when gunshots rang out in a park near a packed downtown bar district Saturday evening. At least 13 shots sent revelers running for cover, footage posted by a local official showed.

'My heart is broken. This evening we had a shooting at the park with multiple victims and one fighting for his life,' ONE Lexington Director Devine Carama wrote.

The shooting took place at roughly 6.45pm at Charles Young Park.

A four-year-old, a 14-year-old and two adults were shot, police said in a subsequent update. All were taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Another victim was declared dead at the hospital, a Lexington Police Department spokesperson told the Daily Mail. The spokeswoman said the incident remains under investigation.

Both Carama, the director of the mayor of Lexington's youth gun violence reduction program, and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear used the incident to call attention to high rates of gun violence.

Meanwhile, a mass shooting was unfolding in Chicago, at around 7.15.pm. It left four injured, two critically, after a car pulled up beside a group walking along a sidewalk in the city's Gresham neighborhood.

The victims, a 43-year-old man, a 34-year-old man, a 32-year-old woman and a man of unknown age, were all injured, after multiple occupants fired shots out of the windows before driving off. The incident is also under investigation.

In Kentucky, five people were shot, one fatally, when gunfire erupted in a park near a packed downtown bar district Saturday evening. At least 13 shots sent revelers running for cover, footage from an attendee who is also a local government official shows

A mass shooting in Chicago at around 7.15.pm left four people injured, two critically, after a car pulled up beside a group walking along a sidewalk in the city's Gresham neighborhood

No arrests have been made in either incident.

A 19-year-old suspect was arrested Saturday evening, though, for a shooting that occurred at Virginia State University early Saturday and injured five, including a student.

The school, however, previously said in a statement that the shooting involved 'multiple suspects.'

That shooting remains under investigation as well.

Suspected gunman Camron Harris is not a student and is from Virginia, Chesterfield County Police said in a statement shortly after making the arrest. Neither were four of the people injured.

The victims' ages ranged from 17 to 23. Their names have not been released. The shooting occurred just after 1.30am and sent the campus into lockdown. One of the five wounded suffered critical injuries.

The park plagued by gunfire in Kentucky, meanwhile, was in the midst of an outdoor concert event slated for six to 8pm, the Lexington Herald Leader first reported.

Gov. Beshear was the first to confirm reports of the shooting, doing so during a speech in downtown Lexington at the Kentucky Democratic Party’s Moving Forward Together at the Hyatt Regency, not far away from the scene.

A 19-year-old suspect has been taken into custody for a shooting that occurred at Virginia State University early Saturday. The shooting injured five, including a student

'To stop mass shootings, we have got to elect Democrats that will actually do something about it,' Beshear said.

Lexington Chief of Lexington Police Lawrence Weathers gave an update at the park as well, revealing that multiple children were among those shot in an update issued at the scene shortly thereafter.

It remains unclear whether a suspect was apprehended.

Weathers told reporters at the scene that he didn’t believe there was a threat to the public, the Herald Leader reported.

A Lexington Police Department spokesperson told the Daily Mail the investigation was still active early Sunday morning.

The University of Kentucky HealthCare reportedly sent an email to employees saying it was providing care to 'multiple patients' wounded during the 'tragic shooting at Charles Young Park.'

Police were filmed making a perimeter around the park with their cruisers before sundown as well.

Chief Weathers told reporters: 'If you know somebody who might be inclined to use a weapon, please do anything you can do to let us know before something happens.

'Please let us know.'

The park plagued by gunfire in Kentucky was reportedly in the midst of an outdoor concert event slated for 6 to 8pm. At least 13 shots were fired, according to the hectic video

The poster recalled parkgoers performing CPR and lifting young victims who had been shot

Police descended on the park, where there was reportedly an outdoor concert in place, after witnesses reported gunshots at 6.48pm, police said - adding that they did not believe there was any more threat to the public

Carama, meanwhile, recalled parkgoers 'trying to help with CPR,' one lifting a young victim 'who got shot,' and 'EMS responding to multiple victims in real time' in posts to Facebook.

In the footage he shared, a woman can be heard screaming 'my baby' as bullets whiz by.

'This is not normal. We come together every year as a family and kick it on the Eastside and we haven’t had something like this happen, EVER,' Carama added.