HOUSTON, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- A man was shot and several others hurt early Thursday morning after chaos broke out outside a popular nightclub in downtown Houston, local police said.
Police officers who arrived later at the scene described it as "chaotic" as they couldn't distinguish from victims and suspects.
Chaos erupted in the nightclub's parking lot after closing time. There was a fight. A car with three people on board drove into the crowd, apparently on purpose, and hit at least one person.
According to the police, at least one person in the crowd then pulled out a gun and shot at the fleeing car, hitting it several times. At least one of the occupants was shot, in the leg.
The car's driver backed up, hit a utility pole and started driving north.
A Houston Police Department sergeant patrolling in the area was driving toward the sound of gunfire and saw the shot-up vehicle, which he stopped.
When he found the occupant with a gunshot wound, he returned to his police vehicle to call for an ambulance.
That's when the three men took off running -- including the one with a gunshot wound to his leg.
According to a Houston Police Department news release later Thursday, two of those men were found nearby, and taken to hospitals to be treated for gunshot wounds. The third car occupant remained at large.
