A stray bullet from a shooting nearby struck a father watching his son practice with a South Jersey youth football team Thursday night.
Gunfire rang out around 7:25 p.m. at Jefferson and Fernwood avenues in Pleasantville causing players on the adjacent field to duck for cover, said Pleasantville Police.
A father sitting on the bleachers of the Pleasantville Junior Joker’s Field felt something sting his left shoulder as he ducked for cover. Realizing he had been shot, the 38-year-old man drove himself to the hospital where doctor’s removed the bullet, said investigators.
“There’s nothing to indicate that the victim was anything other than an unfortunate bystander who was here at the game like everybody else was,” said Pleasantville Police Chief Sean Riggin.
The gunfire apparently came when a fight between two men – who had nothing to do with the football team – escalated, said police.
Bullets also struck Jalmar Figueroa’s van as his wife sat in the driver’s seat.
“She’s very lucky because they said there were two shooters,” said Figueroa. “One from the back and one from the front.”
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Grainy surveillance video show people ducking for cover. Police hope someone in the area knows something about the shooters.
“There’s no way that this happened and there’s not a large swath of people that know what happened or at least have heard information,” said Riggin.
