BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Police in Bloomington are investigating an overnight shooting in the 400 block of East Kirkwood Avenue that injured seven people.
At about 1:30 a.m., officers with the Bloomington Police Department and Indiana University Police Department were monitoring a large crowd near Kirkwood Avenue and Dunn Street when they heard several gunshots.
At the scene, officers say they saw a man carrying a gun running northeast from the area and chased him. Officers took him into custody east of Indiana Avenue near Dunn Meadow and found a gun nearby. Police have not determined whether the man fired any shots.
Officers found multiple people with wounds believed to have been caused by gunfire in downtown Bloomington. They also found shell casings of various calibers on the sidewalk near 420 East Kirkwood Avenue.
Ambulances took seven people to area hospitals. Police do not know whether anyone else was wounded. No deaths have been reported.
Police say preliminary information determined that a disturbance broke out in a large crowd on Kirkwood Avenue shortly before the shooting.
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