{"id":457572,"date":"2019-11-16T18:14:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T19:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=457572"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:15:03","slug":"gunman-fires-into-crowd-during-n-j-high-school-football-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=457572","title":{"rendered":"Gunman fires into crowd during N.J. high school football game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"An ambulance on scene at a shooting at Pleasantville (N.J.) High School football field. (Video screen grab)\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-license-id=\"658087\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/nj-shooting-1.jpg\" title=\"An ambulance on scene at a shooting at Pleasantville (N.J.) High School football field. (Video screen grab)\" \/><\/p>\n<p> A <\/p>\n<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2019\/11\/shots-fired-at-nj-high-school-football-game-witness-says.html\">gunman fired into the crowded bleachers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                         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. <\/p>\n<p> The brazen shooting, which took place at the Pleasantville High School football field during a game against Camden High School, was caught on video. <\/p>\n<p> A man and boy were seriously injured in the shooting, according to the New York Post. The boy was airlifted to Children\u2019s Hospital in Philadelphia, police said. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cPop, pop, pop. At least a half dozen shots in Pleasantville bleachers,\u201d NJ Advance Media sports reporter Kevin Minnick, who was covering the game, tweeted. <\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Shooting at N.J. high school football game between Pleasantville and Camden high schools\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0c1VKjxbCmo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u201cWith 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,\u201d Minnick added, according to NJ.com. \u201cFans scrambled, and there was a lot of screaming. I\u2019ve been doing this for better than 30 years and this is the first time I\u2019ve experienced something like this first hand.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Agents from the New Jersey office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms tweeted Friday night they would be attending the scene. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Breaking: As the shooting happens at the Camden\/Pleasantville football game. People running, jumping fences, laying on the ground. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6abc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@6abc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XzViuszadX\">pic.twitter.com\/XzViuszadX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Nik (@6abcmike) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/6abcmike\/status\/1195523471721271297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 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. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cThis 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,\u201d Tyner said, according to NJ.com. \u201cThis 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.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> The game was halted following the shooting with Camden leading 6-0 in the third quarter. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Breaking News: There was a shooting in the 3rd quarter of the Camden\/Pleasantville state playoff football game.  JSZ&#8217;s Mike Frankel was there.  6 shots fired in the stands on Pleasantville side.  More to come on Jersey Sports Zone <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XMWKwJLrg8\">pic.twitter.com\/XMWKwJLrg8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jersey Sports Zone (@JSZ_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JSZ_Sports\/status\/1195540547861188608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>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 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=457572\" title=\"Gunman fires into crowd during N.J. high school football game\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":457574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457577,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457572\/revisions\/457577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/457574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}