Downtown Milwaukee will be under a limited curfew for the rest of the weekend and a massive watch party scheduled for Sunday has been called off after 21 people were injured in three separate shootings near an entertainment district where thousands gathered for an NBA playoff game.

“What makes people think they can just have a shootout on a public street or in an entertainment district, whether police are there or not?” Assistant police chief Nicole Waldner asked at a Saturday news conference.

Mayor Cavalier Johnson said the city imposed a curfew for the downtown area requiring everyone age 20 or younger to be off the street by 11pm for Saturday as well as Sunday – when the Bucks play at Boston in the decisive Game 7.

Meanwhile, a Game 7 outdoor watch party that had been planned in the Deer District entertainment area just outside the arena was called off.

The watch party likely would have drawn well over 10,000 people.

The Bucks said 11,000 attended a Game 6 watch party, even as more than 19,000 others were inside the arena.

The shooting happened just outside the boundaries of the Deer District, a 30-acre entertainment district that developed after Fiserv Forum opened in 2018.

Bill Reinemann, a parking attendant at a lot adjacent to Deer District, said he heard gunshots, then saw scores of people running away.

in the third shooting that left 17 people hurt.

Five of the injured were armed and were among the 10 people taken into custody, Waldner said.

O’Kane said they were outside waiting for their ride “then all of a sudden you hear the ‘pop, pop, pop’ behind you.”.

O’Kane said he heard about 20 shots before he was able to capture 22 more on video.