ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The Pennsylvania Avenue shooting in Rochester Saturday morning has left some people who attended the gathering and those who live in the area in shock.

"It was a lot of people in a small space," said a party goer, who did not wish to be identified. 

What You Need To Know

  • Witnesses recall the scene of the mass shooting in Rochester Saturday morning that left 16 people shot and two dead

  • One man says he and his friend were splattered in blood, but, were not shot

  • One neighbor took cell phone footage showing the chaos 

One minute he was having fun at a party and the next minute he said there was chaos.

"I heard a lot of shots, I seen a lot of people duck towards the floor… and when we ran I seen a lot of people get trampled on, jumping the fencing, a lot of people crying, a lot of emotion," he said. 

He says he thinks he is still in shock.

”I was with somebody, I was with a girl so I jumped over her to try to protect her. The person next to me got shot. I heard screams, people calling 911," he said.

He says he and his friend were splattered in blood – but, amazingly, were not shot.

"I believe there was probably 30, 40 shots, probably multiple shooters," he said, “After like the bullets stopped for a while, everybody got up and ran towards like the back fence. They broke the back fence, people like getting stomped on, I got stomped on a little bit.”

For those Spectrum News spoke to, whether they attended the party or they live in the neighboring homes, they say this is a trauma they won’t soon forget.

One neighbor took cell phone footage, showing the chaos and people trying to help the victims.

“Well I woke up because of gunshots and then I got up and got kids in my driveway screaming and crying that somebody got shot," said Jasmin Lopez of Rochester.

Lopez didn’t hear any noise, until she heard the gunfire. 

“And there’s kids all over the place, just hundreds of kids just running, jumping in the cars, dropping bottles, throwing up, bleeding everywhere , on the corner, I mean you never wake up to see something like that. I mean just kids, these are all kids, running into cars, jumping over curbs to take people out of here. The police officer walking people to the ambulance because the ambulance couldn’t get in," she said. 

A neighborhood and a city now try to move forward from this tragedy.