PHOENIX — A man is seriously hurt after a shooting at a house party Friday night in west Phoenix.
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Phoenix police say they were called to the home near 99th Avenue and Broadway Road around 10:30 p.m. for a reported shooting.
When officers arrived, witnesses told them two groups exchanged gunfire as the gathering was breaking up.
“(Bullets) rattled my house. I was in my back bedroom, and you heard the rattle,” said Kelli Kirk, a neighbor who was right next to the house party when the shooting started. “I knew instantly it hit my house.”
Those bullets were blowing holes through Kirk’s home and right into her 19-year-old son’s room.
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A 21-year-old man was reportedly hit by the gunfire and was driven to the hospital.
The man is in critical but stable condition.
Police say no suspects are in custody at this point.
The shooting remains under investigation.
Kirk is now moving her son to another room in the house. She is just thankful he was not there that night.
“It’s scary, I mean, stray bullets would kill him. Just thinking about his future, and what if he was here? What would he have done?” said Kirk.
If you have any information about this incident, you are asked to call Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS or 480-TESTIGO. You can also submit a tip anonymously at their website.
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