One person has been killed and 15 others injured in a shooting at the Cameo Night Club in Cincinnati, Ohio.<\/p>\n
A “dispute” between several men escalated into a gunfight in the crowded venue, Police Chief Eliot Isaac said.<\/p>\n
A 27-year-old man died in the incident, which occurred early on Sunday.<\/p>\n
There was no indication the shooting was terrorism-related, Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley said at a news conference.<\/p>\n
He went on: “However, to the victims, what difference does it make?”<\/p>\n
Police Chief Isaac said a “couple of hundred people” were inside the “very large establishment” when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n
“Several local men got into some kind of dispute inside the bar and it escalated into shots being fired from several individuals,” he said.<\/p>\n
The police chief said that despite security checks, several firearms had been brought into the nightclub. Investigators are still trying to identify the shooters.<\/p>\n
One of the injured is in a very critical condition, Police Chief Isaac said, adding that emergency services began to receive calls at about 01:30 local time (05:30 GMT) reporting that shots had been fired.<\/p>\n
Earlier Captain Kimberly Williams told journalists there were at least two reported gunmen, who were still at large.<\/p>\n
The Cameo Night Club had had problems in the past “but this is by far the worst”, she said. A shooting inside the club occurred on New Year’s Day in 2015, and in the car park in September that year, officials said.<\/p>\n
Ohio Governor John Kasich said he was “saddened” by the shooting.<\/p>\n
It comes less than a year after gunman Omar Mateen opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n
Mateen killed 49 people in the deadliest mass shooting in US history.<\/p>\n
Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"