Updated: Old Town shooting injures 10, including 8 people shot and 2 trampled, police say

Update Sunday 4:30 p.m:

A man walked into a local hospital Sunday afternoon with a gunshot wound related to the shooting at City Nightz early Sunday, police spokesperson Juan Rebolledo told The Eagle Sunday afternoon.

That brings the number of people who were shot to eight.

Rebolledo also said police arrested one man in connection with the shooting. The man’s name and the charges have not been released.

Rebolledo did say that contrary to reports being shared on social media, the man arrested was not Timothy Cornell Patterson, better known as the rapper Mozzy.

Original:

Shoes, sandals, overturned chairs and other items scattered the floor of a nightclub in Old Town after an early Sunday shooting left seven people with gunshot wounds and two more people hospitalized after being trampled as people fled, police said.

Shots were fired just before 1 a.m. in the City Nightz nightclub on North Washington, Wichita Police Lt. Aaron Moses said during a news conference at the scene.

“We have seven people who have been shot. We have two people who have been trampled during the mass exodus out (of) the club,” Moses said, noting the investigation was still in the preliminary stage.

There were no fatalities, but there was one critical injury. All the victims were being treated at an area hospital, Moses said.

Shortly before 9 a.m. on Sunday, crime scene investigators were packing up as officers removed crime scene tape around the parking lot adjacent to the nightclub.

By then, Washington was open and traffic was flowing both ways.

The gunshot victims included five men between the ages of 21 and 34, a 21-year-old woman and a 24-year-old woman, Moses said during a news conference later Sunday morning. The two people who were trampled were a 30-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man.

Five of the victims were taken to a local hospital by EMS. The rest got to the hospital by their own means, police said during a second media briefing.

Shots were fired from at least four guns during the incident, Moses said. A person whom police believe was one of the shooters has been taken into custody, he said.

“We have also seized an additional four firearms at this time and we are investigating whether those firearms match the ballistic evidence that we recovered from inside the scene,” police said.

Detective Chris Merceau said during the news conference that police have been called to the nightclub about a dozen times this year for various incidents, including a report of aggravated battery and a drive-by shooting on May 21.

He said after that incident police met with the club’s owner and discussed the importance of having surveillance cameras and using electronic wands to detect weapons on patrons. He said investigators will work to determine if any of those recommendations were followed.

The shootings were part of a particularly violent night in Wichita.

A 17-year-old boy was found dead around 6:30 p.m. on Saturday. Investigators said it appears he was shot during an argument with a 21-year-old man, who showed up at a hospital with a gunshot wound to his hand. About twenty minutes after the shootings at City Nightz on Sunday morning, a 35-year-old man was walking down South Broadway when an unknown person shot him in the arm.

“We have to take actions to push back against this increase in gun violence that we are seeing,” Mayor Brandon Whipple said at the second news conference. “We have to come together as a community and talk with our young people in particular about how resorting to gun violence is not the way to solve a problem or issue.”

Contributing: Associated Press