The party wrapped up around 2AM on Saturday. As people headed to their cars, witnesses say someone started shooting.

"We heard shots and I actually jumped on my sister in the vehicle and wrapped her up because I didn't want her to get hit," said witness Jonathan Noteboom.

According to the Yell County Sheriff's Office, people were shooting at each other and three people were injured.

One 19-year old man is now in serious condition, after the sheriff says he was shot twice in the back.

"It was definitely a cross fire," said Noteboom.  

Noteboom and his friend David Tanner raced away in their car when the shooting happened.

But they went back when they realized they left a friend behind.

When they came back, they found the man shot in the back.

"I saw people around him so I took my shirt off, put it in his back and he stopped bleeding," said Noteboom.

"I just kept telling him to be calm... told him be in the hospital tonight, out tomorrow and he could brag to his friends," said Tanner.

Noteboom and Tanner are both marine reservists.

Set to deploy to Iraq in November, they say they just did what they were trained to do.

"Criminal investigators said if we didn't do what we did, he wouldn't have made it... so I guess that makes me happy, I just hope he lives," said Noteboom.

The sheriff's office says they have several leads on possible suspects in the shooting.

An arrest could soon be made, but sadly enough, the sheriff says this isn't the first time this has happened.

"We had these problems at this location in the past... I'm not aware of one of them where we haven't had some type of problem so I hope the National Guard will put a stop to this," said Yell County Sheriff Bill Gilkey.