Shots were fired at a Phoenix high school on Friday night during a varsity boys basketball game, but authorities say no one was harmed.

A witness says she heard at least 10 gunshots at Cesar Chavez High School in southwest Phoenix near the school's gymnasium. Up to 15 shots were fired in all, police confirmed.

Alicia Sotelo, 18, said she heard someone yell "it's going to happen now," then the gunfire began.

Phoenix police Lt. Tom Van Dorn said gang squad investigators responded to the school near 43rd Avenue and Baseline on Friday night. Officials think the shooting may have been gang related and they're looking for three people.

It wasn't clear if the shooters were students.

Hundreds of people had been attending a match between Chavez High and Betty H. Fairfax High School when the shooting occurred. The game began at 7 p.m.

It wasn't immediately clear when the shots were fired, but students said the gym was evacuated shortly after.

Van Dorn said no one was shot but paramedics evaluated three people for other medical conditions.


Sotelo, a senior at Chavez, told 12 News that, once she heard the shots, she and other teens took off running and didn't turn back.

She didn't see anyone with gunshot wounds and said it appeared that whoever was firing was shooting into the air.

Lela Alston, a member of the Phoenix Union High School District Governing Board, which oversees Chavez High School, said she learned about the shooting in a phone call from the district's superintendent.

"This was a very, very bad thing to have occurred," on a school campus, Alston said, adding that she was sorry it happened and expects Phoenix police will thoroughly investigate.

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