One wounded in Little Italy shooting across from church

SAN DIEGO — There was heavy police presence on State Street in downtown San Diego after calls came in for a shooting late Sunday night.

San Diego police responded to the 1600 block of State Street in Little Italy around 11:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve for reports of a shooting.

SDPD confirmed to FOX 5 one person was shot.

There were no suspects in custody as of late Sunday.

Our Lady of the Rosary Church is right across the street from where the shooting happened. The church had a holiday caroling service at 11:30 p.m. and a midnight mass.

“I was actually facing this way when the shooting was happening, so I saw a girl run down the stairs, and I saw a guy in a hoodie run down, there was a car that drove off really, really fast. There was about eight shots, and then a guy started screaming, and it wasn’t like screaming like in shock, it was screaming of pain, and it was a lot of shots, and I just grabbed him, I was afraid,” said Sara, a churchgoer.

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She added that many people were hiding in the church after the shooting.

“They were ducked, ducked behind the pews,” Sara said.

“You don’t expect it here for sure,” said Brenda Roberts, who lives nearby. She added that she heard a lot of sirens.

One of the doors to the complex says it’s a short-term rental, it appears there are multiple homes inside the complex.

Roberts, who lives nearby, said she has seen more Airbnbs pop up lately in the area.

“There are a lot of Airbnbs, more and more lately,” Roberts added. “Usually when I’m walking, I know all my regular neighbors, we all have dogs, we all stop and say hello, but there’s another level of people that come and go and come and go like for a weekend even.”

FOX 5’s Zara Barker contributed to this story.

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