CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Gunshots outside a Cleveland church interrupted a prayer service to end gun violence taking place inside.
A drive-by gunman shot a 46-year-old man twice about 10:10 a.m. at a park on Parkwood Drive, just as a few members of the nearby New Fellowship Christian Church started the prayer service.
"We were praying for the safety of the world in all this gunfire," said a woman who only identified herself as Sister Miller.
Several men left the prayer group and ran outside and saw the man lying on the ground at Walter Burks Playground Park.
They called police and paramedics.
Officers found the man sitting beneath the park's gazebo. He was shot in the forehead and in the left ear, police said. He told police that someone opened fire at him from a silver car before paramedics rushed him to University Hospitals, police said.
Police recovered four bullet casings on the street next to the park, and a loaded handgun magazine about 100 yards south. Investigators believe there were at least two shooters, police said.
Police have not identified a suspect.
The shooting came in a three-day span that saw five people killed, marking one of Cleveland's deadliest few days in 2016.
"We're pretty seasoned," church member Mary Bush said. "We just thank God that nobody in here was injured."
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