Folks who live in the neighborhood where a gang rivalry resulted in gunfire Sunday are unnerved by the incident, but they aren’t letting it keep them inside.

“When I heard about the shots being fired it was crazy to me,” said Alexander Lee Thursday evening at C.M. Musser Elementary School playground, which is next to the scene of the shooting.

“I don’t like that there’re people shooting, but I’m not going to let that stop me from letting my daughter come here to play,” said Lee, who lives on New Castle Avenue. “I still feel this is a nice area.”

He said everyone always respected that it was a neighborhood with a lot of kids playing.

But if people will shoot their guns with children around, “there’s no telling what they’ll do,” Lee said.

Ray McIntyre, who lives in the 500 block of Baldwin, said that he always checks on people stopped in the neighborhood who he doesn’t recognize, asking them who they are and what they’re doing there.

He and his wife Kristy were among about a hundred people who showed up for a meeting in May about starting a neighborhood watch in the area, McIntyre said. They’ve yet to hear from police or organizers about it, he said.

A woman who was at the playground with her daughter and grandchildren Thursday said she hadn’t heard about the shooting.

“It’s gotten crazy,” said the woman, who lives on Spruce Avenue and declined to give her name.

“You hear the guns going off all the time,” she said. “It makes you nervous.”

She said she sometimes suggests they take the kids to Buhl Farm park in Hermitage instead of the local playground because she feels safer there.

“You just don’t know around here anymore. It’s getting to be like Youngstown,” she said.

Lee said that he feels better about the shooting knowing that the police caught the men involved.

It shows that the police are making an effort, he said, and maybe if more people helped the police instead of claiming they don’t know anything then the gang activity would stop.

McIntyre said he’s lived in the area his whole life and times have certainly changed. He said he thinks police are afraid of what’s going on.