By Karina Alvarado and Andrea Hernandez, with information from Christian Herrera and the Redwood City Police Department.
Parents were notified via SMS about a shooting in Hoover Park on the afternoon of Friday, August 19.
The official version of the authorities is that, according to a witness who was at the scene, two adult men apparently had an argument in the center of the soccer field, after which one of them took out a gun, pointed it at his opponent and fired several times, the subjects then fled the area where some children were with their parents.
Following the initial report to authorities, staff at The Boys & Girls Club called police to report that two of the windows in the vicinity were hit by bullets. Staff at the location confirmed that no one was injured by the gunfire, but that one of their employees was injured by one of the broken windows.
Meanwhile, Hoover Elementary School – which is south of the park and was