Five people were injured, including one seriously, early Sunday morning during a shooting inside a strip club, according to Madison police.
Officers were headed to Visions Night Club for a report of a large fight around 1:45 a.m. when the Dane County 911 Center was told bullets were being fired inside the building at 3554 E. Washington Ave., Madison police said.
Police found four victims with gunshot injuries and one person wounded from a stabbing at the strip club, Police Chief Mike Koval said in his daily incident blog.
"The precipitating event for this large-scale fight may have been over a re-entry issue where someone was originally kicked out of the bar," Koval wrote.
Madison police said the shooting victims, three males and one female, ranged in age from 31 to 46 years old. One shooting victim required surgery but is considered stable, Koval said.
The other victims have been treated and released, said police Sgt. Eric Tripke.
Koval said there were between 40 and 50 people at the strip club, which is the only one in Madison, at the time of the shooting.
He said "there is no ongoing danger to the public at this time."
Around 8:30 a.m., there was no apparent police presence at the strip club with only a couple scraps of police tape remaining at the scene.
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