A shooting took place during a football game at a California high school named Oakland Tech High School that left three people injured.
Here is everything you need to know.
Multiple gunshots were fired during a high school football match
According to local reports, shots were heard on Sunday afternoon at Oakland Technical High School while a youth football team was on the campus field.
Furthermore, as per ABC, the football game was between 10-year-olds from Fresno and Oakland. Gunfire reportedly rose from the field’s stands.
A fifty-two-year-old woman, a thirty-year-old man, and a five-year-old girl sustained injuries during the unfortunate tragedy.
On late Sunday Oakland cops confirmed that all the victims are now in stable condition.
The incident supposedly occurred around 1:15 pm. Moreover, the authorities are currently surveying the scene.
Meanwhile, the United States has presently witnessed around 315 mass gun shootings in 2022 as per Gun Violence Archive.
People condemn the Oakland Tech High School shooting
Oakland Dynamites’ coach Quintrell Dotson condemned the shooting, explaining how the children would find it a traumatic experience.
He mentioned, ‘It’s just sad that I heard these kids running and screaming, and you know when you see these kids’ faces and how they react to things like that it makes it even worse.’
Additionally, Dotson went on to say, ‘Kids don’t deserve to be seeing and witnessing things like this, kids don’t need to be around like this once you come to these events, whatever on the outside nature shouldn’t even be going on here so it just hurts that this happened today.’
Politician Jon Kaiman wrote in a Twitter messenger, ‘When I am in Congress, I will co-sign legislation to ban assault weapons in America. We must curb the gun violence epidemic.’
While a user said, ‘Man Shooting at a youth football game where young kids find peace and have fun. To really break my heart man. Why Oakland ?’
Another chimed in saying, ‘A shooting at Oakland Tech today during a football game? Three people were injured including a 5-year-old boy. I’m tired of these violent monsters destroying my hometown. Enough is enough. Ship these violent tough guy cowards to Ukraine and let them play with guns there.’
A different user noted, ‘You know you have a gun violence issue when 7 people were shot during a mass shooting in Orlando and 8 people were shot during a mass shooting in Detroit, but George Jetson is the top story. Just another day in America.’