Police are searching for a white van and several individuals believed to be involved in a shooting on Xenia Avenue Monday.

Two people were taken to an area hospital Monday afternoon after a shooting in the 300 block of Xenia. Dayton Police said one person was shot and one was pistol-whipped.

According to a Dayton Police incident report, a woman told police that she was sitting in a car with the two victims and one of the men’s 2-year-old daughter. She said a white full-sized van with a red stripe down the side pulled up in front of their car and four individuals got out.

Two of the men were wearing masks and two were not. All four were carrying guns. None of those involved could give a very good description of the men. One witness said they were all black, while another said at least two of them were white, according to the police report.

The woman told police that she grabbed the child and ran behind the building to safety.

After she left, the attackers hit one victim in the face with a gun and shot the other in the leg.

Police said Monday that neither victim was being forthcoming with information. Police said based on past encounters with the victims, they think the incident is drug-related.

Sgt. Matt Beavers said police are still working to determine who fired at whom and how many weapons were used. Police reportedly found shell casings from several weapons at the scene.

A witness who lives across the street said she heard five or six shots fired. Several witnesses were detained and interviewed by police.

Leslie Sheward, president of the Twin Towers Neighborhood Association, came to the scene and said residents are fed up with the violence in their neighborhood.

“This is not the norm for this community,” she said. “We have a lot of life-long residents that want to see it back the way it was.”

She said the gunfire doesn’t scare her, but saddens her. “People just decide to use guns instead of talking to people anymore.”

The neighborhood association is planning a community meeting and wants to start crime prevention programs including a court watch group to follow local cases from beginning to end.

“We want neighbors to know they have a right to speak up,” she said.

The building where the shooting took place is the same one Keith Vann Moore was seen leaving moments before he was shot to death on Xenia Avenue in June.

Vann Moore, 25, was found lying in the street just a block over near the intersection with George Street early in the morning. Last week, a grand jury indicted Demond Harris in connection with Vann Moore’s death.

Police have yet to make an arrest in the New Year’s Day homicide of 30-year-old Bradlee Thompson, who was found shot to death inside his Hulbert Street home.

Monday’s shooting happened near the intersection of Ambrose and Angel courts, right in front of Ruskin Elementary School.

Classes were not in session because of the Martin Luther King Day holiday, but Sheward said a shooting outside the school in the middle of the day is scary.

“If classes had been in session, we would have gone on lockdown,” she said.