Ausha Wooten.The party was Ausha Wooten’s idea. There had simply been too many senseless killings in her community, she says, and somebody needed to act. So she planned an all-day event, the “1st Annual Central District Family Renunion,” as she dubbed it, for Saturday at Powell Barnett Park. When the kid showed up with the gun, then ran off, and according to witnesses fired a few rounds as he bolted down the street, Wooten was angry. But as she defiantly notes, the day didn’t end there. At around 6 p.m., Wooten was introducing Paul Patu, a local minister set to speak to the crowd that Wooten estimates at 250 people, when the individual with the gun, who Wooten says hadn’t partaken in the day’s festivities, made his appearance known. “He just showed up,” Wooten says. “From my understanding he just pulled out a gun.”In the ensuing chaos, people ran from the gunman and out of the park. The gunman also ran, Wooten says. The police received multiple 911 calls of shots having been fired. By all accounts, officers were on the scene almost immediately, did a thorough search of the park, but found no gun, no shooter, and no victims. The police also checked in with local hospitals in search of victims, Det. Renee Witt tells Seattle Weekly, but found none.One of those who fled the park was a mother who’d been in the playground with her 5-year-old daughter. Part of the growing white population living around the park that coexists–sometimes easily, sometimes uneasily–with the African-American community that has long called the neighborhood home, she wrote of the incident on the popular Madrona Moms listserv, calling it “a scary scene to say the least.””I noticed a lot of people running away with fear in their eyes,” the woman, who asked not to be named, told Seattle Weekly. At that point, she left the park with her daughter. Will she return?”At this point it’s up to my 5-year-old,” she says. “She was very scared. When we just drove past [the park], she said she didn’t even want to look at it.”But not everyone stayed away after the shooting. Wooten credits the cops with not dispersing the crowd after controlling the scene, and says that about 100 people stuck around and watched as she and others presented a plaque to the family of Tanaya Gilbert, the pregnant 19-year-old caught in the crossfire as she sat in her car on a night in July, likely murdered by the now-deceased pimp Kenneth Harding. Says Wooten: “I know how the devil works, but he didn’t win. We stayed in the park until 9 p.m.”Follow The Daily Weekly on Facebook and Twitter.