Roanoke Rapids police Chief Chuck Hasty said the condition of the three who were shot was not immediately clear. As of this report they were being treated.
No suspect descriptions have been given as of this report, Hasty said.
Police responded to MIR’s Sports Grill and Bar off Julian R. Allsbrook Highway around 1 a.m. on a shots fired call.
Detectives had the parking lot immediately behind the establishment roped off with crime scene tape.
They placed more than 20 evidence markers inside the crime scene, which could be representative of fragments, casings, objects struck or other pieces of evidence. Hasty said Mayflower restaurant was struck.
While Hasty said it was not immediately clear what prompted the shooting, a woman who was inside the establishment said there had been “fussing” between two men and she and her cousin tried to stop the argument.
She said two of the people who had been arguing were shot. She did not know what the argument was about.
The argument spilled over to outside the bar, she said, and her cousin’s car was struck with a bullet.
As of this report, investigators and uniformed officers were still at the scene.