The terrifying video captures the moment dozens of shots echoed near a youth baseball game in South Carolina.
On Monday night, during a Dixie Youth League baseball game at Pepperhill Park in North Charleston, a group of children on the field could be seen reacting to the sound of gunshots nearby.
At first the children were confused, they did not know what was happening.
When he enlightened them about what was happening, they all ran into cover.
Players and coaches at a Little League game in North Charleston, South Carolina, ran for cover while shots were fired nearby. Screengrab / ABC News 4
ABC News 4, the local news outlet that released a video of the incident, said one of the team’s coaches had lobbied the league to stop playing games in North Charleston Park due to violence in the area.
Police said no one was injured in the incident.
Cops told TMZ that the shooting came after a fistfight between a “large group” of teenagers who fled the scene before officers arrived.
The city, which has about 111,000 people, has had 11 murders so far in 2022 – up from six at the time last year. There were two murders last weekend, one of which was a 16-year-old boy.
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