Right across the street from Lakewood Elementary School, a bullet pierced the wall of Lorenzo Bourroughs’ mother’s house and traveled across the room, hitting another wall before landing on a couch.

“Of course I’m concerned about my mother, but there are children in the neighborhood as well,” said Bourroughs

Bullets started flying just after 3 p.m.  A witness reports a person in a car fired a gun at another person walking, and that person fired back.

Several bullets hit two nearby cars. Several bullet holes are very evident.

“You come home and you just want to rest, you want to take it easy.  You don’t want to walk into the house as my family did and discover bullet holes in the house. Thank God they weren’t home,” said Bourroughs.

Timothy Sommers waited for a group of second grade students to come to the school garden. For some reason, they were 15 minutes late. Enough time to miss the gun fire.

“If we all got down on the ground next to me, that bullet that landed a foot away from me would have hit a kid,” said Sommers.

Administrators put the school on lockout so nobody could get in.

Sommers and three volunteers hid under picnic tables and eventually in a nearby shed.

“We had bullets skipping off the ground, literally flying by us while we’re on the ground here into that vicinity,” said Sommers.

He counted at least 12 shots. Nobody was injured.

A St. Petersburg Police Department spokesperson said all the shots were aimed away from the school and there is no reason to believe the school was targeted.

Officers are looking for the shooters.

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