Two men are believed to be behind the mass shooting near the Indiana University campus in Bloomington that left nine people injured — including five women hit by bullets or fragments, police said Sunday.
Just before the violence erupted at a celebration over the “Little 500” college cycling race on the city’s popular strip of Kirkwood Avenue, a fight had broken out between two women in front of a Five Guys restaurant, Bloomington Police Chief Mike Diekhoff told reporters.
During the confrontation, two male suspects allegedly pulled out their handguns and fired in the dense crowd, with five women injured by the gunfire and bullet fragments, Diekhoff said.
The two women involved in the fight were not injured, authorities said.
The other people injured were hurt during the ensuing stampede, officials said.
No students were injured, officials said.