Two off-duty Louisville Metro Police officers received minor injuries when they were trying to disperse a crowd and shots rang out near a west Louisville nightclub early Sunday morning.
About 4 a.m., as local nightclub Cole's was closing, two off-duty officers working security at the club responded to an area nearby to break up a fight that was breaking out and disperse the crowd, said Dwight Mitchell, a police spokesman.
As police were trying to clear the area, shots were fired, Mitchell said. Each of the two officers received graze wounds to their hands, he said.
Neither was transported to the hospital by ambulance, though Mitchell said they may go to the hospital to have the wounds cleaned and bandaged.
Neither one of the officers fired his weapon, Mitchell said.
Cole's is located at 2924 W. Kentucky Street, just blocks from the scene of Thursday's deadly shootings at 32nd and Kentucky streets. Six people were shot in two separate incidents that afternoon, leaving three people dead. Mitchell said it is unclear whether or not Sunday morning's incident was connected.
Mitchell said it was also unclear early Sunday whether or not the officers, who were wearing their uniforms, were the intended targets of the shooting.
Police were at the scene interviewing witnesses. Because officers were involved the department's Public Integrity Unit will conduct the investigation, Mitchell said.
No suspect descriptions have been released by police and no one had yet been charged in connection to the incident, Mitchell said.