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At least 2 injured in shooting at New Jersey high school football game

At least two people were injured in a Friday night shooting at a high school football game in Pleasantville, N.J.

Officials said about half a dozen shots were fired from the stands during the third quarter of the game, local news station NBC Philadelphia reports.

A boy was reportedly shot while sitting in the bleachers and has since been taken to a local hospital. A second individual was injured and brought off the field by an ambulance.

Pleasantville Mayor Jesse Tweedle confirmed to the station that one of the victims was a child.

The Newark office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives tweeted that federal agents were responding to the incident.