Five off-duty Colorado Department of Corrections employees were involved in a 70-round shootout early July 10 at a skatepark, according to the Pueblo Police Department.

One prison employee and two suspects were wounded in the shootout, which happened about 2:40 a.m., Pueblo police spokeswoman Bianca Hicks said.

The five prison employees were hanging out after 2 a.m. in the skatepark in Pueblo’s City Park after the group left work at the Centennial Correctional Facility near Cañon City.

They were skating, throwing a football around and “doing some other activities,” she said, noting that their presence in the park violated the area’s curfew. Then a group of five suspects pulled up and attempted a carjacking, Hicks said.

At least one suspect shot at the correctional employees during the attempted carjacking, and at least one of the prison employees returned fire, Hicks said.

Investigators found 70 shell casings at the scene, she said.

“Ultimately, what we ended up having was a bit of a shootout between the two groups,” she said.

Hicks said she did not know the extent of the wounds to the Department of Corrections employee or to the two suspects who were shot. One of the wounded suspects was an adult, and the other was a juvenile, she said. Police were alerted to the shooting when the three victims arrived at two hospitals, she said.

“The victims actually ended up taking the injured suspect to the local hospital,” Hicks said.

Police have identified some of the suspects and are working to identify other people involved in the attempted carjacking, she said. She declined to release their names and cited the ongoing investigation.

The district attorney’s office will make decisions about charges in the shootout and whether the prison employees acted in self-defense, Hicks said.

Christian Andrade, a spokesman for the Colorado Department of Corrections, confirmed that staff members were involved in the shooting and said no employees had been placed on administrative leave. He declined to provide additional information and directed inquiries to Pueblo police.

The early-morning shootout happened on the same day that two off-duty staff members at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility, a prison in Cañon City, were killed in a crash in Pueblo West at 1:58 a.m., according to The Cañon City Daily Record.

Investigators in that case were considering whether excessive speed and intoxication contributed to the crash, the newspaper reported.