Three people wounded by shooting at US high school football game

A shooting incident at a US high school football game in New Jersey has left three people wounded, two of them is serious condition.

Authorities have charged five men, including the alleged gunman, in connection with a shooting at a New Jersey high school football game on Friday.

One of the suspects, Alvin Wyatt, 31, faces charges of attempted murder, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, Atlantic County Prosecutor Damon G. Tyner announced in a press release Saturday.

The adult victim, Ibn Abdullah, 27, was shot and is in stable condition but will require surgery, according to the prosecutor.

A 10-year-old child was injured in the shooting and is hospitalized in critical condition, Tyner said. A 15-year-old boy suffered a graze wound and was treated at the hospital and released.

Prosecutors cited the motive behind the shooting as “petty vengeance”.

Players and spectators ran for cover when a gunman opened fire around 8:30 p.m. Friday (GMT 15:30) during the third quarter of a Pleasantville Greyhounds football game against the Camden Panthers in Pleasantville, said Pleasantville Police Chief Sean Riggins.

Along with Wyatt, police arrested Michael Mack, 27; Tyrell Dorn, 28; Shahid Dixon, 27; and Vance Golden, 26. All of the suspects are from Atlantic City, except for Golden who is from Pleasantville.

They face charges of unlawful possession of a weapon and certain persons not to possess a weapon. Dixon is also charged with eluding.

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The shooting incident comes amid an ongoing debate in the US about the government’s inaction to tackle growing gun violence.

Mass shootings have been occurring across the US with increasing frequency.

Last year, Amnesty International warned that the gun violence situation in the US has grown into a full blown "human rights crisis" and the administration of President Donald Trump was doing little to solve it.

In a scathing report the UK-based group warned that “all aspects of American life have been compromised in some way by the unfettered access to guns, with no attempts at meaningful national regulation.”

According to the organization, an average of 106 individuals died a day from firearm-related incidents in 2016, totaling 38,658. Of that figure, nearly 23,000 were suicides and more than 14,400 were homicides, Amnesty said.

The issue of gun violence has become all the more polarizing under US President Donald Trump, a Republican whose presidential campaign was funded partially by the National Rifle Association (NRA), an influential gun lobby in the US.

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