Double Shooting on Whitaker Avenue

Police said two were hit by gunfire in the Juniata section early Saturday.

The shooting occurred at 4:39 a.m. at the Casa Espana Night Club.  According to police, a dispute started over a woman.

Two groups of men started arguing, prompting the club's bouncers to escort both groups out the back door.  On the way to the exit, two men, Gabriel Antonio Rodriguez Diaz, 19, and Jonathan Ayala, 29, pulled pistols and started blazing.

A 24-year-old man and a 25-year-old man both sustained gun shot wounds, in the stomach and in the foot, respectively.

The gunmen both fled together in a dark-colored BMW sedan.  The sedan hit a telephone pole near Rising Sun and Luzerne streets, where police recovered a handgun.  Authorities caught up with the car and the two accused gunmen at 4000 N. Front Street, where they were taken into custody.

Both injured men are reported to be in stable condition.  Police do not believe there is a link between the shootings and an earlier hit-and-run incident.

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