Huntsville skate park shooting

Huntsville police investigate a shooting Sunday, June 8, 2014, at the Huntsville Skate Park on Cleveland Avenue. (Contributed by WHNT News 19)

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- A man was shot at the Huntsville Skate Park on Cleveland Avenue Sunday night after he "threatened to shoot everyone" during an argument and fight that escalated to a shootout.

Witnesses told police on the scene said a photographer was using the skatepark bowl as a backdrop for photos, but got in an argument with the father of two children, described as ages 8 and 10, who wanted to use the area to skate.

The argument escalated into a physical fight, then one of the people involved in the fight went to a car and got a gun and "threatened to shoot everyone," according to a police report; the father then got his own gun and the two exchanged shots, according to witnesses on the scene.

A police report released Monday morning states that the father involved in the argument shot the man who was making threats. The shooter was not listed as having been charged in the police report, and the name of the man who was shot and is listed as the offender for "menacing" with a gun in the police report was not released.

Police Sgt. Marc Moon said the man who was shot was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The other man was taken to the police station for questioning. Another person who was alert and did not appear in distress waited in the back of an ambulance for about 30 minutes before being taken to the hospital around 9 p.m.

There were several teens held at the scene for questioning.

Police sent an alert about a confirmed shooting at the site at the intersection of Cleveland and Church streets, 7:52 p.m. The city-owned skate park is open from dawn to dusk.

Police were still investigating at 9:25 p.m.

Updated at 7:50 a.m. with details from police report.

Updated at 8:54 p.m. and 9:25 p.m. with details from the scene.