Shooting at Regina bar, 2 men sent to hospital
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Regina police are investigating after a bloody bar shooting in the early morning hours that sent two men, aged 35 and 22, to hospital.
Police said the victims were in serious but stable condition.
The shootings took place at the Pump Roadhouse, at 641 Victoria Ave. E. (close to Park Street) around 1:10 a.m. CST Friday.
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—@NWRPodcast3 pops that sounded like fireworks
Mike Medby was in the basement of the bar with friends watching karaoke when the lights came on and they were told to exit.
When he went upstairs, a friend told him he had heard three pops that sounded like fireworks.
There was a guy laying on the ground and the bouncers and staff and everybody was trying to help him. I heard them talking about trying to keep pressure on and all that sort of stuff.- Mike Medby, Pump Roadhouse customer
"There was a guy there who ... was freaking out at a table and I asked him what's going on and he said his friend is hurt and all this and I said 'No, let's go see your friend,'" he said.
"So we went in to the kitchen and all I saw there was probably more blood than I've ever seen," Medby. said.
"There was a guy laying on the ground and the bouncers and staff and everybody was trying to help him. I heard them talking about trying to keep pressure on and all that sort of stuff."
In front of the bar at 7 a.m., there was a trail of blood on the steps leading to the front door.
Police haven't released any other details.
A friend of one of the victims has been trying to sort out what happened.
"He was trying to leave and someone was following around that he didn't know and shot him," Alexandra Morin said Friday afternoon.
She was outside the nightclub when the shootings took place.
"We heard one loud pop and we kind of all just stood there looking around to figure out what was going on. Then we heard two or three more. And then people started to scream and they were running out the door," she recalled.
'We're devastated,' nightclub says
"How does an organization react to the incident that happened last night at our club?" The Pump's Mike Smith said in a post to the nightclub's Facebook account. "We are very grateful that there were not more injuries."
The posting, on Friday afternoon, called the incident unfortunate and disturbing.
"We feel devastated and victimized," he said, noting that the business has been operating for 44 years in Regina.
"We will be assessing the overall situation to see how we could prevent something like this from happening again," Smith added.
2nd nightclub attack
Meanwhile, there was an assault at another Regina nightclub less than two hours later.
A man, 24, was sent to hospital with injuries after an incident at a club on the 2100 block of Broad St.
There's no word on whether or not the two incidents are connected. Police said they are investigating and have not ruled out that there may be a connection. The man injured in the second incident was also in serious but stable condition.
