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8B – Daily News – Monday, September 27, 2010 Witness: ’Hell’ as NJ party shooter had no targets EAST ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — A Seton Hall Uni- versity student who attend- ed an off-campus house party at which five people were shot said the gunman stood on her back as she lay on the floor and didn’t appear to be targeting any- one during the chaos she described as ‘‘hell.’’ ‘‘He was just shooting he had no intended target,’’ said a text message from the woman, whose friend was the only person killed. The woman spoke Sun- day by BlackBerry instant messenger on condition of anonymity because she feared for her safety while the shooter remained at large. She said she was too upset to talk over the phone. She described the Fri- day night party, which last- ed into early Saturday, as a ‘‘typical fraternity party’’ with at least 100 people at the privately owned row house. Students said the shoot- er was kicked out of the party when he refused to pay the cover charge. The woman said she heard a fight erupt before the man was thrown out. Seconds later, she said, he returned with a handgun and started shooting as chaos erupted. ‘‘Everyone was scram- bling n stampeding. People were jumping out the two windows n all I cud smell was smoke n blood,’’ the woman wrote. ‘‘The next thing I knew I opened my eyes n saw hell..blood n just panic.’’ The woman said was on the floor when the gunman stepped on her back and shot her friend Jessica Moore, a 19-year-old hon- ors student majoring in psychology. Moore, who was from Disputanta, Va., died later at a hospital. Authorities had not released the names of the four wounded people, whose injuries weren’t considered life-threatening. Two of the injured are 19-year-old women who go to Seton Hall, and one is a 25-year-old man who attends the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The other is a 20-year-old man from New York who is not a student.