Three men were shot -- two of them fatally -- in a shooting outside a nightclub in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood on the North Side.
One of the victims, 41-year-old Elijah Moore, is a father of three children and a friend of community activist Andrew Holmes.
"One of the people that was with him says he wasn't involved in the fight," said Holmes. "Everybody just started fighting in there. The people started moving, and when the guy displayed the weapon from the outside the fight went outside and he just started shooting."
The fight broke out at about 3:10 a.m. Monday inside Dolphin Chicago, at 2200 N. Ashland, and several patrons were escorted out of the club by security guards, police said.
One man, age 34, suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body. Moore was shot in the chest. Both were pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
A 26-year-old man shot in the left wrist was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized, police said.
Darris Kelly, a 33-year-old West Side man who said he was inside the club, said between five and seven people got into a fight and were being removed when he heard at least seven gunshots ring out.
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"There was a fight, then we heard shots and everybody hit the floor,” Kelly said. “It was definitely scary. Chicago is crazy."
The club was formerly known as Green Dolphin.
