TWO people have died and two others have been wounded during a shooting outside a bar just weeks after a gunman fired shots at the same location.
The shooting happened just before 2am on Sunday outside Las Margaritas Bar & Grill in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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Police in the area responded after hearing shots and receiving multiple calls.
Neighbors woke up to a series of loud "popping" gunshots and shards of glass were left at the corner near the bar, Lake Geneva News reported.
The two victims who were injured remain in the hospital.
This shooting happened just weeks after a man gunned down three people at the same bar.
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A fight broke out around 1.45am on August 20 inside the Las Margaritas bar.
Damon A. Blakey, 31, from Zion, Illinois was involved in a fight along with three other people.
When the fight was taken outside, Blakey allegedly shot a man and two women - including his girlfriend who he accidentally shot, according to the criminal complaint.
Blakey was then arrested and during a police interview, he said he fired his gun about five times at "nobody in particular."
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He then saw one of the men he was arguing with and began shooting at him "because he punched my tooth out,'" the complaint said.
Blakey's girlfriend was seriously wounded while the other woman had non-life-threatening injuries.
The man in the fight who took three gunshots to his body is expected to live.
Blakey was charged with attempted first-degree murder among other charges such as possession of a firearm by an out-of-state felon.
SERIES OF SHOOTINGS
The Kenosha Police Department responded to another shooting on Sunday, just four hours apart from the one outside of Las Margaritas.
Police responded just before 6am in a residential neighborhood of Kenosha.
One person was shot multiple times and taken to the hospital.
In response to the shooting on August 20, Kenosha police said that "We need the community to step up and talk to police before this stuff happens!"
"Guns don't belong in bars or in the hand of intoxicated people ... Every victim of senseless shootings is cared for by someone."
A local business owner told TMJ4 " it doesn't surprise me," when referring to the shooting.
"We're packing up. We're out of here as soon as we find somewhere else we want to be," a resident of the neighborhood next to the Las Margaritas bar told Lake Geneva News on Sunday.
He made the decision to leave after the shooting on August 20.
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No suspects in Sunday's two shootings are in custody yet and the victims' identities will not be released at this time.
The U.S. Sun reached out for any further updates, but the department said that no more information will be released at this time.
