Updated 12 p.m. Tuesday with information from police.
For years, southern Dallas residents gathered behind the Juanita Craft Recreation Center to watch players from two area neighborhoods compete against one another.
Tammy Burns usually watched the game from the edge of her street instead of going to the football field.
Burns and her neighbors were standing in the same spot Sunday night, when they watched their family-friendly football field turn into a bloody crime scene.
About 9:20 p.m., police said, a disturbance broke out between two men attending the game.
Just before the shooting began, Burns said, she saw people shoving each other and heard a man yell, "Hey, he got that pistol!"
"When he said that," she said, "the shots started going like it was the Fourth of July."
One of the men walked up to the field, got on a silver moped, drove into the field and opened fire on the crowd of hundreds, police said.
Burns and the other adults grabbed as many kids as they could and ran home.
A witness told police that multiple people shot back at the suspect. Five people, including a pregnant woman, were wounded in the crossfire.
The shooter fled. It was unclear if he was wounded.
Burns said she walked back to the field after the gunfire ended on Sunday to check on her relatives. They were unhurt, but Burns said Monday that she couldn't get the screams of adults and children out of her mind.
"Last night wasn't right," she said. "It wasn't right at all.”
A video posted on Facebook Live appeared to capture 30 seconds of gunfire and the chaos that it sparked on the field.
Southeast patrol officers who rushed to the scene after the shooting treated the victims near the field before they were taken to a hospital.
There was no time to clean up.
On Monday, the field was still littered with trash: sippy cups, Gatorade bottles, Styrofoam boxes, Swisher Sweets cigar wrappers. Latex gloves and bandage wrappers marked the likely spot where paramedics treated the wounded.
KDFW-TV (Channel 4) reported that the pregnant woman was in critical condition after being shot in the chest, but her baby was listed in good condition.
Another woman was shot in the head, and three people had leg wounds, the station said.
The suspect remained at large.
Police said they were looking at rounds from several guns and rifles for clues to identify him.
Crystal Ross, assistant director of Dallas Parks and Recreation, said her department didn't learn about the football game until it was too late. Police called her about 12:15 a.m. Monday and asked that the stadium lights be turned on so officers could continue their investigation.
The parks department has no records of requests for neighborhood football games for the past three weeks, Ross said.
Police are still looking for the man who started the shooting. They described the suspect as black, in his 20s, between 5-foot-8 and 5-foot-10 and with a thin build. He was wearing black Nike shorts, black shoes and was shirtless at the time of the shooting, police said.
Crime Stoppers is offering as much as $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest in the case.
"We need to get these individuals off the street," Deputy Chief Thomas Castro said at a news conference on Monday. He said detectives were investigating whether the shooting was tied to gang violence.
"When somebody shoots into a crowd like that, it's alarming," Castro said.
He asked that anyone with information call police at 214-671-3703 or Crime Stoppers at 214-373-8477.
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