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Teen Shoots Another near Central Fresno School Zone

By: Ashley Ritchie

Just minutes after the school bell rang for the day on Wednesday, sirens took its place.

"I just saw all the kids run down and then I saw the kid laying on the ground," Stephan Holland said.

Holland lives in an apartment near 9th and Floradora; just steps away from where police were called.

"It appears that a large number of students were involved in some kind of disturbance, some kind of fight. During that fight somebody produced a handgun and a number of shots were fired," Lieutenant Jon Papaleo, Fresno Police Department, said.

People living in the area say it's not uncommon for problems to flare up at the nearby school and then overflow into the streets, leaving many there on high alert.

"It's always something when this school lets out over here. There's always something going on," Holland said.

Even some Yosemite Middle School students say the constant violence is cautioning them.

"If there's going to be a fight, I wonder if every time there's going to be a gun," Mayra Madrigal, student, said.

"They shot him and we were right next to him. We probably thought the gunshots were for us," Destiny Mojica, student, said.

Teenagers shooting one another, school zones no longer what they used to be.

"Times have changed as far as maybe when all of us were younger," Papaleo said.

For Stephen Holland, it's maybe a reason to move.

"Been a year, but it's too long," he said.

And when the school bell rings once again, parents can only hope the lessons their kids learn come strictly from textbooks.

The victim in this shooting was only shot in the arm and police call his wound "superficial."

As for the suspect, police say the Fresno Unified School District was able to provide them with some kind of video and they're going through that to try and determine who exactly they're looking for.

Fresno police say it's still too early to tell who exactly was involved and how many kids go to the school and which ones are kids from the neighborhood.