Disturbing video footage shows 7 & 8-year old baseball players hit the ground, cowering in extreme fear, after gunshots are heard ringing through the air at a Little League state championship game in North Carolina.
About 8 players as well as the adults officiating, initially froze in fear, as at least three shots rang out Sunday. One of the shots found itself landing just a few feet from a player.
Most of the players then dropped to the ground while a handful fled the field in Wilson as a chorus of adults screamed, “Get down!”
The video ended with the young kids and adults trying to crawl for safety.
“No child or parent should ever experience anything like this,” insisted the South Durham Little League, whose 8U Orange All Star team was one of the teams playing at the time.
“Tragic events such as these are happening far too often in our country. … Today, it happened for 7- and 8-year-old Little League players, for children and coaches we all know,” the league said of the “terrifying situation for all involved.”
“We know at least one bullet landed on one of the baseball fields, while players were on the field,” the league said.
One dad, Dominique Williams, told the local station he raced to grab a gun from his car, fearing an active shooter.
“As I was running to my car, I was thinking, ‘Do I go get my son or do I go and get my pistol?’ so I made the decision to fight back in case the shooter approached,” he said.
Another player’s dad, Pius Walcourt, said it was “very sad that someone would ever want to shoot anything near a youth event.”
“These are kids. They have their whole lives ahead of them and for something like this to happen … It could traumatize them for the rest of their lives,” he said.
The gunman was found shooting out the windows of a minivan in the parking lot and was not immediately arrested. There was no evidence that the gunman was targeting the baseball game.
Still, the championship was canceled for the rest of the day, and several teams later withdrew completely.
The South Durham Little League withdrew both its under-8s and under-9s teams from the state championships.
“This was not a decision made lightly, but it also was not a difficult decision for us to make,” the team said.
“The events were too traumatic for us to even consider having the teams return to Wilson to play,” said the statement, which ended by saying, “Our hearts are heavy.”
Why was he not arrested? That is just unfathomable to me! Now he can just do it again and next time maybe hit someone!
Probably Hunter Biden