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Gunman fires into crowd during N.J. high school football game

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A gunman fired into the crowded bleachers during a high school football playoff game in New Jersey Friday night, wounding two people while sending other spectators and both teams scrambling for cover.

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The brazen shooting, which took place at the Pleasantville High School football field during a game against Camden High School, was caught on video.

A man and boy were seriously injured in the shooting, according to the New York Post. The boy was airlifted to Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia, police said.

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“Pop, pop, pop. At least a half dozen shots in Pleasantville bleachers,” NJ Advance Media sports reporter Kevin Minnick, who was covering the game, tweeted.

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“With approximately five minutes left in the third quarter, I heard multiple gunshots coming from the Pleasantville bleachers. At that point, everyone was just screaming to get down,” Minnick added, according to NJ.com. “Fans scrambled, and there was a lot of screaming. I’ve been doing this for better than 30 years and this is the first time I’ve experienced something like this first hand.”

Agents from the New Jersey office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms tweeted Friday night they would be attending the scene.

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Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon Tyner said during a Friday news conference that he believed the shooter would be tracked down due to the number of people who saw what happened. But no arrests have been made yet.

“This was the most well-attended high school football game for this school in years, so there are many witnesses to the incident that are currently being interviewed,” Tyner said, according to NJ.com. “This is a tragic situation, to say the least, on the heels of what just happened in Santa Clarita, California. It has hit home here in Pleasantville and it is very disturbing to say the least.”

The game was halted following the shooting with Camden leading 6-0 in the third quarter.

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