HAZLETON, Pa. — At least two people were taken to the hospital after a fight in a restaurant led to gunfire.
State and local police responded Monday morning to North Wyoming and East Maple Street.
Security camera video shows the moment when someone came into Sazón Latino and started shooting.
Police say a dispute occurred between several people at the Pleasure Lounge in Lehighton earlier in the day. Everyone involved was removed, and they ended up in Hazleton, outside the Sazón Latino restaurant on the corner of North Wyoming and East Maple Streets
Officials say one of the people involved entered the restaurant and started shooting another person returned fire.
Restaurant owner Edward Sirvestre and his mother are still shaken up by what happened at their restaurant.
"This morning, my mother is like she usually doing every single day, she opened early, and someone come from the street and with the gun in the hand and just started shooting everywhere and like he don't care like nothing," Sirvestre said.
The investigation by city and state police shut down this busy part of North Wyoming Street for hours.
Sirvestre says this is the first time something like this has happened at his restaurant since he opened 18 years ago.
"One party came here, and then the other party followed him in shooting, and you can see it in the video."
Because the surveillance video is part of the investigation, Newswatch 16 is unable to show it.
Hazleton Police Chief Brian Schoonmaker tells Newswatch 16 this started as a fight between two men at a club in Lehighton that continued here. An innocent bystander in the restaurant was hit by gunfire and sent to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
"We try, and we work with the police. They got all the evidence they can get. That's why we were closed like four hours, but they get the evidence, and they give me the OK to open."
The restaurant is open here, and the owner's mother, who was hit by glass amidst the gunfire, was treated and is OK.
At this time, police are not releasing any information. The owner of the restaurant tells us both the shooter and the victim were taken to the hospital. We have not been able to confirm that.
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