"I heard gun shots," says the shooting victim's mother Dnomyar Nelson. "I looked for my baby. I see my baby right there crying, holding herself."

People being wounded, including a 5 year old girl. Little Tamika Nelson and at least 3 other victims were caught in the crossfire of a running gun battle that witnesses say erupted without warning. This was the scene early Thursday on Charles E. Davis Boulevard off Murfreesboro Road. 5 people wounded in a shootout between 2 men that erupted in a courtyard full of people. Dnomyar Nelson's 5 year old daughter Tamika left the scene in an ambulance.

"She got grazed in her neck, grazed behind her ear, off her side and shot in her arm," says Nelson.

The little girl was rushed to Vanderbilt along with 2 men who were even more seriously wounded. A 3rd man believed to have been involved in the shooting drove himself to the hospital.

"We do have a weapon at the scene and several shell casings," says Metro Police Captain Ken Walburn. "Our ID unit is here and they'll be processing that evidence."

Police don't know what started the shooting. The light of day found neighbors less interested in what the beef was about than the fact the gunmen decided to fight it out with so many innocent people in harm's way.

"Why would you all shoot in the midst of a crows of kids like that with bullets," says neighbor Thomariskist Beck. "Bullets don't have eyes."

One of those bullets crashed through the window of Chemetria Jeffers' apartment. It's an apartment she shares with her 9 children. Jeffers says this neighborhood is not a safe place.

"It could have went in but luckily God was with my children and nothing happened to them," says Jeffers. "So Amen to that."

Residents fear there could be a next time and next time they won't be so lucky. Metro Police are still investigating, but have not made any arrests in this case. We're glad to report 5 year old Tamika Nelson was released from the hospital earlier today.5 Year Old Girl Wounded at 4th of July Celebration