Tampa police said a 4-year-old boy was wounded after gunshots were fired during an argument that was taking place a short distance away.

Police have identified the shooter as 22-year-old Bakari Deonte Parks. There is a warrant out for his arrest for attempted murder.

According to Tampa police, two suspects were fighting with each other in the area of Chestnut Street and N. Oregon Avenue at 11 a.m.

At some point, shots were fired, and one of the bullets hit Renaldo Moore, who was with his mother about 250 yards away at W. Spruce Street and Oregon Avenue.

Moore was taken to Tampa General Hospital to receive treatment for his injuries.

“Clearly having individuals shoot at each other at 11 o’clock in the afternoon in a densely populated area is very, very dangerous,” said Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor.

And residents say it's not uncommon. They say they hear gunfire all the time, and it seems to be getting worse.

"For the last probably five or six months, it's been shootings, killings, people riding by shooting out of their cars and stuff,” said Shirley Harilal, a resident. "They need to just go ahead and move people and knock this place down then maybe it will be safer."

Mayor Bob Buckhorn said that's actually the plan. The city is trying to get funding right now to tear down the North Blvd. housing project.

"We're going to rebuild the housing. It's going to be mixed-use. It's going to be subsidized with market rate housing. There will be job opportunities, job training,” Buckhorn said.

But he said it's a long term plan that's going to take some time.

"We didn't get into this condition there overnight," he said. "We're certainly not going to get out of it overnight."

In the meantime, both the mayor and police chief are asking for the community's help to clean up the streets.

“There is a level of responsibility you can't allow this to happen in your neighborhood. And there are-- the good people in this neighborhood far outweigh the any of the bad guys, the knuckleheads that are walking around here and they need to give us information to get the bad guys off the street,” said Castor.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Tampa Police Department at 813-276-3200.

Several area schools - Just Elementary, Steward Middle Magnet, Mount Pleasant Standard Based Middle, Dunbar Elementary and Blake High - were on various levels of lockdown shortly after the shooting, but the lockdown has since been lifted.