By ABC News
Three people were killed and two were injured when gunfire broke out early Sunday at a nightclub in Kansas City, Missouri, police said.
No arrests were immediately announced and police were working to identify a suspect or suspects in the episode.
The shooting erupted at the Klymax Lounge southeast of downtown Kansas City around 1:30 a.m. local time, the Kansas City Police Department said in a statement.
Officers responded to reports of gunfire at the nightclub and discovered two people fatally shot, police said.
“One of those victims was located outside the lounge and the second was located inside the business,” police said.
Three other people wounded in the incident were taken to ambulance to hospitals, according to police.
One of the victims died upon arrival at a hospital, police said.
Elsewhere, four people were shot and wounded outside an Alabama bar early Sunday in what police described as an exchange of gunfire.
Birmingham Police Lt. Ron Harless said three men and a woman were shot outside Tin Roof in the city’s Lakeview District, AL.com reported.
The shooting was reported around 12:45 a.m. to an off-duty Birmingham police officer who was working inside Tin Roof.
Police and Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service responded and found a man who had been shot and a woman who was grazed by a bullet in the parking lot.
An SUV reportedly fled the scene and was pulled over nearby.
Two seriously wounded men, including one with life-threatening injuries, were in the vehicle.
All four gunshot victims were transported to UAB Hospital.
The shooting was under investigation, police said.
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