ORLANDO — High schoolhouse shot players fell to the tract and fled to the locker country after a parking batch shooting brought a halt to the Jones and Wekiva playoff crippled connected Saturday night.
Emergency responders were seen providing thorax compressions and breathing assistance to 1 idiosyncratic successful the aftermath of the shooting. Another idiosyncratic received aesculapian attraction to his leg.
People fled the parking batch down the northbound extremity portion of the shot tract astatine Jones High School aft 2 sets of gunshots rang retired precocious successful the 4th quarter.
At the clip of the shooting, play was concentrated connected the southbound extremity of the field. Wekiva players instantly fled to the locker country portion Jones players and coaches took screen connected the crushed connected the sideline.
The Region 1-3M quarterfinal matchup was called with 1:40 near successful the 4th fourth and Jones starring Wekiva 29-13.
"It wasn't Jones kids," Jones caput manager Elijah Williams said. "It was a vicinity happening that spilled implicit to the parking lot. We had a infinitesimal near successful the game. It was existent senseless. I anticipation the young men are OK.
"At that point, we conscionable wanted to support some teams safe. We laid connected the ground, hid successful the backmost implicit there. It's conscionable precise unfortunate and takes distant from a hard-fought contention betwixt Orange County schools that deserved and did everything they could to get here.
"Instead of glorifying our efforts of coming to this crippled and making it this far, we're talking astir immoderate unfortunate circumstances brought by immoderate atrocious decisions."
Jones High School is located little than a mile from Camping World Stadium, which was hosting the 2nd nighttime of the Electric Daisy Carnival festival connected Saturday.
We were conscionable playing the crippled and past evidently we heard shots lit disconnected but was thought it was fireworks," Wekiva caput manager Jeremiah Rodriguez-Schwartz said. "Once we realized it was gunshots we conscionable each ran to safety.
"All our guys are accounted for. Everyone is safe. It shows you sometimes beingness is bigger than football."
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