Crush at it again.

Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- Richland County Deputies are investigating a shooting that occurred around 3:15am Saturday morning on 3700 block of River Drive in Columbia.

Deputies say that a fight broke out inside Club Crush and involved about 30 people.

According to officials all of the people were thrown out of the establishment but one man went back inside and fired shots. Two people were shot in the lower body and were transported to Palmetto Health Richland Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Deputies are still searching for the gunman.

If you have any information about this incident call Crime Stoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC.

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Deputies dispatched to strip club 173 times in 2 years; community hopes it doesn't reopen.

A River Drive strip club that was the site of a fire and two shootings over the past eight days has become a nuisance, community members and Richland County Sheriff's Department officials say.

The three incidents are far from the first time officials have paid visits to Crush Gentleman's Club.

According to data obtained by The State, deputies were sent to the club 173 times since March 7, 2010, and filed 348 incident reports involving the strip club in that time span.

The club at 3722 River Drive is closed after sustaining about $100,000 in damages in a fire early Thursday morning. The cause of the fire is still under investigation by Richland County fire marshals. Richland County deputies responded to the fire.

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said the strip club has become a problem for the department and the surrounding the community. It's become such a “magnet for illegal activity” that he hopes it doesn't reopen, he said.

“Our hope is that it would not be rebuilt,” Lott said Thursday after the club caught fire. “It's to the community and sheriff's department's advantage if it's not rebuilt.”

A worker with Crush on Thursday said the owner would not comment on the number of deputy visits to the club but said the business plans to reopen within four weeks.

Wednesday, two men shot at a tow truck driver who was moving a car that was parked there illegally. Reco Maurice Bell, 24, and Antione Demetrius Caughmun, 25, were arrested in that incident and charged with attempted murder and armed robbery.

A woman also had to be hospitalized after she was hit by a bullet passing through a wall at the club March 1. The bullet was fired during a fight in the club's parking lot late that night.