A suspect has now been arrested in the shooting of a 14-year-old boy outside a Rockford high school Monday. But neighbors are still concerned about what they call a pattern of violence.

It happened around 9:00 AM outside the Auburn Freshman Campus. Detectives say 18-year-old Jesus Camacho opened fire, while he was a passenger in an SUV. One bullet hit the victim in the leg. The boy was treated and released from Rockford Memorial Hospital. The suspect vehicle, a red Chevy Blazer, was found on 13th Avenue and Camacho was located by officers in a home nearby.

Students say what concerns them most is that the victim isn't a trouble-maker. Parents worry about innocent bystanders as well.

"If it was someone who got in trouble a lot, it would still be sad, but it wouldn't be as scarey," says Auburn Freshman student Erica Kenney.

"It's scary, it's right across the street from the elementary," adds a McIntosh Elementary mother.

Another McIntosh mom says, "Bullets, they don't have a name on them, so they can hit anybody."

McIntosh Elementary is across the street from Auburn's Freshman campus and McIntosh and both Auburn campuses were on lockdown after the shooting.

As for the victim, a friend tells us, he was just honored as "cadet of the month" in the school's ROTC program. Meanwhile, the suspect, Camacho is facing several charges, including aggravated battery with a firearm.

The surrounding community will probably sleep easier knowing a suspect is in custody, but according to neighbors, this is not an isolated incident and they live in fear one of their children will be caught in the crossfire of gang violence.

"We call the police every day, every day we're calling 911," says Auburn High School mom Angela Singleton.

Singleton doesn't let her children walk the three blocks home from Auburn. She says the dangers along the way are too great.

"What the kids do is they get a couple of blocks from school and they fight. It's adults, it's looks like gang members, it's everybody," says Singleton.

So she wasn't too surprised when she heard about Monday's shooting.

"We already knew it was gonna happen. It's just like a raging wildfire for us. We saw the smoke, we saw the flames, we called the police, we called the superintendent, but nobody has responded to this point."

The biggest fear in the neighborhood is that a stray bullet will find someone's child. That's especially scary for April Weidemann who runs an informal daycare out of her home.

"This past week they all ended up on our street right in front of my house fighting and who's to say that there couldn't have been a gun involved then," says Weidemann. "With having five and six kids running around playing, you never know what to expect. You never know if they're going to be OK for five minutes in the front yard."

Singleton blames some of the problems on the recent switch from bussing kids to the school of their choice, to neighborhood schools.

"We never had this problem until neighborhood schools," says Singleton. "We never had the traffic of the kids walking up and down these blocks, you never had adults pulling up to meet kids that they know where they're going."

Plus Singleton says zoned schools corral kids from neighborhood gangs together, creating a hotbed for violence. "There's innocent kids that are gonna get hurt."

District 205 administrators and Auburn school leaders declined to comment Monday. District leaders say they're waiting for police to finish their investigation, while the Auburn Freshman principal says her focus is on restoring order and security. Police say it is safe to go to school Tuesday.

Rockford police didn't go into detail about their response for security reasons, but Deputy Chief Theo Glover says since the Columbine school shootings, every officer has been trained to deal with shootings both in classrooms and on school grounds. One key procedure is to put the school on lockdown: No one in or out, which did happen Monday.