CNN —Two people are dead and 18 others were injured in a shooting after a “fight between two groups” broke out in the street early Sunday morning in Tampa, Florida, police said.
Officers were present when the incident happened in Tampa’s Ybor City neighborhood just before 3 a.m., Lee Bercaw, Tampa’s police chief, said in a Sunday morning news conference.
It’s three o’clock, the bars let out, there’s hundreds in the street,” Bercaw said.
It’s not yet clear whether all 18 people injured in the incident suffered gunshot wounds or other injuries.
“It is tragic what happened here, that families have to wake up and see on the news what happened here tonight,” Bercaw said.
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