It appeared there had been a group of young men who got into a fight on the beach when someone pulled out a gun and fired a shot.
North Avenue Beach has been closed on Friday afternoon, after shots was fired just hours after the beach had opened to swimmers for the summer, sending visitors scrambling for cover.
Officers could be seen questioning a group of about a dozen people, and several people were handcuffed as police searched a nearby stack of lounge chairs.Police said a group of young men got into a fight on the beach when someone pulled out a gun and started shooting. "We were really close, actually. We were having fun, and then all of a sudden these people started fighting, and the police came out, and then we heard a gunshot, and we just ran away to safety," Claire Nelson said.
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