Three people were injured in an early Sunday shooting at a Warehouse District bar, according to the Minneapolis Police Department, which described it as a “violent, chaotic scene.”

Officers heard gunshots coming from Tantrum Nightclub, which operates inside Dulono's Sports Bar at 118 N. Fourth St. on the weekends, around 1:47 a.m. Sunday as they responded to reports of a person with a gun. A man who was shot inside the bar was located and taken to a hospital with injuries that aren't believed to be life-threatening.

As people fled from Tantrum, additional gunshots were fired in an adjacent parking lot. Officers also responded to those shots and arrested the man outside the bar for reckless discharge of a firearm.

More shots were fired nearby as officers spoke to the man who was arrested in the parking lot. It's still unclear whether he was involved in the shooting inside the bar.

Two other men were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds and are expected to recover.

Police are still working to determine the sequence of events. Preliminary information indicates a physical altercation led to the initial shots fired inside Tantrum.

This is the second shooting inside a downtown nightclub this month.

Just before midnight on Nov. 3, a man was seriously injured in a shooting inside Vanquish Nightclub at 315 N. First Ave., about a block from Tantrum.

“This shows why we need sufficient numbers of officers available at bar close in Downtown, Dinkytown, and Uptown — without depleting the cops patrolling our neighborhoods,” Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said in a statement.

The police department’s “late-night safety plan” dispatches officers to areas where violent incidents tend to occur around 2 a.m. when bars are closing on the weekends, including the Warehouse District, where both of the recent nightclub shootings occurred.

In reference to the Tantrum shooting, O’Hara said “a bad situation was interrupted before it got even worse.”