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SACRAMENTO --

A shooting Tuesday made for a frightening little league game for kids, parents and coaches at McClatchy Park in Sacramento's Oak Park neighborhood. One 18-year-old man was sent to the hospital with bullet wounds, according to police.

When the bullets rang out, everyone at the baseball diamond hit the ground.

"Just out of nowhere, just heard gunshots ... parents, children, everybody went to the ground," said Xavier Ramirez, whose black Dodge was hit by the gun fire.

But at the time he was more concerned about his kids who were playing in their little league game.

"Both diamonds were full with children playing, and people screaming, kids screaming, it was crazy," Ramirez said.

"My first concern were the kids in the immediate area, rounding them up, the only safe place we thought to keep the kids was on the inside of the diamond on the other side of the wood because we're in an open area," said Gary Goethe, who serves on the Oak Park Little League Board of Directors.

Police said the shooting happened after a fight in the parking lot, just feet from where those kids were playing ball. An 18-year-old man was hit by the gunfire and rushed to the hospital by a friend.

"He is in stable condition, all the gunshot wounds were non-life threatening," said Sgt. Bryce Heinlein, a spokesperson for the Sacramento Police Department.

While the shooter is still on the loose, Goethe said he's been asking for more officers to patrol McClatchy Park during their games. He told FOX40 that's because others who frequent the park are creating an environment unsafe for kids.

"We're talking about drinking, marijuana smoke, loud music and doing donuts, more or less what we call a side-show," Goethe said, adding that his requests have largely been ignored. "We've been asking for help, it seems like no one cared."

Heinlein said officers were in the area at the time and actually heard the shot fired before they were reported to 911. In fact, he said an officer had just been in the same parking lot a half hour prior to the shooting.

"But 10 minutes after he left, we had the music playing and then the shooting happened approximately 15 minutes after he left," Goethe said, adding that more needs to be done to clean up the park, otherwise next time his players won't be so lucky. "And I hope none of these kids ever have to be in this situation again to have to witness something like this."

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