Gunfire Kills 1 Party-Goer, Injures 2 Others : Shooting: The attack occurred at a party at a vacant house attended by about 200 people, neighbors said.

A late-night party in a vacant house Friday night was broken up by gunfire that left one young man dead and two others injured.

Police said shots rang out about 11 p.m. at a house on the 2200 block of Cypress Avenue. The dead man was identified as Fernando Dominguez, 20, of Santa Ana.

The injured were Santa Ana residents Modesto Montanez and Phillip Silvas, both 20. Both were alert and in stable condition at Coastal Communities Hospital.

Witnesses said that Dominguez, who was shot in the chest, was removed from the front lawn by party-goers and taken to Coastal Communities Hospital, where he died.

Neither Silvas nor Montanez would comment on the shooting and details from the police were sketchy. But according to neighbors and relatives of Silvas, a fight had broken out between party-goers and local gang members who attempted to enter.

The party was in the back yard and the fight apparently moved to the front of the house. Two gunmen standing in the middle of the street shot at the house and at a neighboring house before running to a waiting car.

Saturday morning, the front door of the house was locked and the mostly empty rooms contained a few belongings left behind by the family who moved out about a month ago. Plastic cups and bottles--some still containing beer--rested on the windowsills, left behind by fleeing party-goers. The lawn outside the house was smeared with blood.

Neighbors said that party organizers had posted flyers around Santa Ana with directions to the house. It was the first such party at that site and about 200 people came to drink beer and listen to music, neighbors said.

“Like they normally do, the gangs came and shot up the place,” said Susie Gomez, 30, who lives next door. She and several of her children were sleeping on the living room floor of their house when a bullet tore through the window screen and white curtains. “They heard about it and had to come ruin it.”

Gomez’s brother Phillip Silvas suffered a bullet wound to the leg when he tried to keep the gunman away from her house. The party ended as those in attendance sprinted for their cars and fled.

No arrests have been made.