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Chilling footage from inside a bowling alley shows the moments after a gunman opened fire at a birthday party, claiming multiple victims.

People can be heard crying in anguish, while a woman lays over a motionless victim screaming for help.

The man, who looks to be in his 20s or early 30s, is laying sideways across a small flight of steps and surrounded by people desperate to help.

Officers can be seen cutting off his blood-soaked t-shirt with a pair of scissors as the woman continues to scream and cry.

"Someone call his f****** baby mumma please," she says.

A witness, speaking to Mirror Online, said: "I counted six or seven shots."

Another told the LA Times they heard nine shots.

The footage, filmed by a witness inside the Gable House Bowl in Torrance, shows the carnage inside the complex, with blood splatters, food and clothes strewn across the floor.

Various people can be heard crying in the background, and as the man walks around a group of women come into view saying "our faces are burning".

Jesus Perez, of San Pedro, told the LA Times he was inside Gable House Bowl in Torrance, California, as it happened and he heard four gunshots.

"We just ran right into the bar and took cover," he said.

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"All we heard was just, like two people got shot."

"We heard there was a big fight before that. We just ran into the bar and we just took cover because after the fight we heard pop pop."

Speaking to Mirror Online, a witness said he went to Gable House Bowl in Torrance, California, for a friend's birthday party.

"I got there around 11.30pm from work to join my best friend for karaoke," he said.

"They were singing when I got there. When they done I went to rest room and back, within five minutes of being back people start storming into karaoke from bowling room shouting shooting gun shot fired etc.

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"My friend pull us to the floor and turn the tables on their side for protection.

"The staff was on it, they tell everyone to get into the back where they lock the door.

"I didn't go because I was looking for a way out, but was told the shooter was outside.

"Then few minutes people start running again, that is when I fell over a chair.

"I'm Jamaican from the 'ghetto' I have seen share of stuff like this... but never had I being in a room with this happens."

The man said he hid for about five minutes before a security guard directed him to an exit.

Three people were killed and four others wounded, police confirmed.

They have not said whether the suspect or suspects have been detained, or what the motive was.

Torrance Police Department tweeted: "Reports of shots fired with multiple victims down.

"T P D is on scene. Investigation is ongoing.

"Please stay away from the area."

A journalist at the scene, Ruben Vives, reported seeing a man with bandages to his back, with his t-shirt torn and covered in blood.

He tweeted: "Brandon Tyre, 31, said he was inside celebrating a friend’s birthday, bowling when a fight broke out and then he heard gun shots.

"When he looked, his brother had been shot in the chest.

"He’s waiting to hear what happened to his brother who remains inside the Gable House Bowl.

"It's a fluid situation here, people trying to figure out were loved ones are.

"Witnesses say a fight at the Gable House Bowl in Torrance turned into a shooting. People are throwing up.

"Family relative crying and screaming."

The camera-person wrote on social media: "Still processing tonight, I am good.

"Gunshots fired, heard ppl died n injured. I was distance away, but people ran in our room."

A woman posted on social media: "My mom was at the Gable House tonight celebrating her birthday and a shooting broke out!"

Another woman said: "I live right next to area, I heard the police sirens go back and forth.

"I heard that the suspect drove down Emerald Street.

"Then I saw the helicopter keep going in circles near the gable bowling house."

The shooting happened just before 12.20am local time.