MEMPHIS, Tenn. — From trying to get food to running for their lives after shots were fired in downtown Memphis.

The shooting happened on Sunday, on the last day of a food truck festival.

When WREG returned to Tom Lee Park on Monday, it was a much different scene with many people enjoying the nice weather.

Families could be seen outside and kids were playing in the playground.

WREG spoke with several people on and off camera who said that while this incident is tragic, it won’t stop them from enjoying what the Bluff City has to offer.

“I still consider it a safe place for me,” Lavender Zachery said. “I’m not going to let no one stop me from getting my peace or my joy just because people just don’t know how to act.”

Zachery said her family was at Tom Lee Park around the time shots rang out at this weekend’s Food Truck Festival.

She told WREG that her family was just about to leave the Riverside Drive area when she saw the crowd start to disperse.

Zachery’s mother alerted them that she heard someone had been shot.

“I look over to my right on this sidewalk right here [and] I see an officer with a rifle – a long rifle or something,” Zachery said. And I was like, ‘Oh snap.”

Zachery said even before shots were fired, she felt tension building up, especially at the entrance to the Festival.

“There was a fight [that] broke up or broke out in the beginning of the food festival, like the front,” she said.

Riverside Drive quickly became a crime scene and Memphis Police said it was a teenage boy who was shot and killed.

The suspect is also believed to be a teenager.

“They were right inside the park when the call went out, so we had a quick police presence,” Zachery said.

Memphis Police said Sunday’s shooting was an isolated incident.

“So downtown is a safe place to be,” MPD Deputy Chief Webb Kirkdoffer said. “They can still put in permits, we’re still going to be policing that area just as we do each and every day. We strive for a stronger, safer Memphis and that’s what we are going to provide.”

Still, Mayor Paul Young told WREG that he’s frustrated by crimes like this.

“It makes me angry, it makes me sad, it makes me frustrated because there are so many people who are working hard in our city to make it a better place.”

“Everywhere should be a safe place,” Lavender said. “Yeah, we from Memphis. We know how Memphis is, but we shouldn’t let the city define who we are.”

WREG spoke with the organizer of the event, who explained the lack of security on Sunday.

He said he had to fire his original security firm because two of the guards showed up drunk and high on marijuana.