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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Dozens of gunshots sent spectators and players at a Dixie Youth league baseball game ducking for cover at Pepperhill Park in North Charleston Monday evening.
One of the team's coaches says they have already petitioned for North Charleston to not be allowed to host recreational games at the park due to violence in the area.
Earlier on Monday, community leaders expressed how they were "fed up" with gun violence in the city after a 16-year-old was one of two people killed in a shooting on Sunday, a family friend of the victim tells ABC News 4.
Members of the North Charleston Police Department and others have been holding peace marches in an effort to reduce the amount of violent crime in the city. The most recent march happened on Friday.
So far in 2022, there have been 11 homicides in the city of North Charleston. At this time in 2021, there were six.
That's an increase of nearly 100 percent.