Two people were shot after a hotel party late Saturday night.
The shooting happened at the Holiday Inn Express located at 2171 54th Avenue North.
According to police, a birthday party was being held at the hotel. An argument broke out and someone pulled out a gun.
"I heard four pops," said hotel guest Mike Vandermeulen. "At first I thought it was firecrackkers but they weren't space like firecrackers would be spaced and I was pretty sure it was a shooting."
Octavius Brown, 19, and Demetrius Crawford, 17, were shot, according to police.
Brown was shot in the upper part of his body. Crawford was shot in the hand.
Brown was taken to Bayfront Medical Center in critical condition. Crawford is being treated at Northside Hospital for his injury.
According to the authorities, the hotel was full of children at the time of the shooting. Gymnastics teams from across the world were staying at the Holiday Inn Saturday night.
"It's a little scary, a little shocking coming from a foriegn country and not getting used to this, this type of gun violence in the U.S.," Joann Lee said. Lee and her six-year-old son traveled from Bermuda for the gymnastics competition at Tropicana Field.
Lee said she heard all the chaos after the shooting.
"There was lots of noise," Lee said. "You could hear kids running across the hallway and up and down the stairwell."
She thought it was just kids playing a prank, but realized it was more serious when the police knocked on her hotel room door.
The hotel offered guests a free night, but Lee said the gymnastics teams checked out and found a new place to stay.