MIAMI BEACH — For the second time in as many days, people were injured in a shooting on South Beach during spring break.

Early Monday morning, two women shot after gunfire erupted near 7th street and Ocean Drive.

One woman had a non-life-threatening injury while the second was grazed by a bullet.

Police say the shooting could have turned deadly had it not been for the proximity of officers to the victims of the shooting.

Lo Mills said he was just leaving the beach to head home when he heard the shots.

“Rolling down the street when I hit the corner and come right here, I hear gun shots, I see smoke coming off the bricks,” he said.

The smoke he saw was from bullet holes on the side of the Avalon Hotel.

“I see a guy with a gun running so I pulled out my gun. I’m thinking he’s gonna shoot me, so I see that he ain’t gonna shoot me and I let him go,” said Mills.

“It’s bad that people come down here to get dragged like that and get hit,” he added.

Miami Beach police took two people, who they said had guns, into custody but it’s not clear if they were connected to the shooting.

The second shooting happened Sunday around midnight near 8th street and Ocean Drive.

“I saw the police with their weapons drawn first, they ran north on Ocean, and then they came back and surrounded what was either a vehicle or a person,” said Miami Beach resident and hotel owner Mitch Novick who was among those who witnessed the chaos.

According to Miami Beach police, two of the people shot were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. A third victim showed up at Mount Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound, also non-life-threatening.

Novick said the shooting is only part of the problem because the scene that followed was just as dangerous.

“I’ve been in stampedes before and the most important thing is personal safety. I saw a vehicle, I saw where the crowds were flying to and I took cover and kept filming,” he said.

Surveillance video shows the moments after the shooting when hundreds of people ran away from the scene, then moments later, the large crowds ran back, creating a situation Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber said has become way too common.

“No community, no police force, should have to suffer through this. You know I’m really tired of it, frankly, I’d love to get rid of spring break. I wish the spring breakers would go somewhere else,” he said.

Gelber said the city has been doing everything in its power to control the crowds. That includes adding more officers, goodwill ambassadors to engage the tourists and even programming to keep them entertained.

“We’re being held hostage to a business model that really attracts an enormous amount of people in a very, very confining, constrained area. There are some businesses that love the revenue but you cannot pay me for this kind of concern and this kind of damage,” said Gelber.

Sentiments echoed by some of those visiting the beach.

“I basically ran by the guy that got shot and I saw him get shot and I was like the worst thing I’ve ever seen,” said tourist Mareo Jackson.

“Do I recommend anyone coming down here for spring break, absolutely not, absolutely not,” said Miami resident Ella Munez, “Two years ago it wasn’t like this.”

Prior to the shootings, Miami Beach Police said they had other major disturbances.