A vehicle drove into a crowd outside a Los Angeles nightclub early Saturday morning, injuring over twenty people, according to California authorities.
The person driving the vehicle was believed to have lost consciousness while at the wheel, leading to the incident around 2:00 a.m., according to Captain Adam VanGerpen, public information officer for the Los Angeles Fire Department.
“We look out the club, and it’s a car into the hole right there,” one person at the scene told NBC News. “And then it’s crazy, because people everywhere, laying down, unconscious, people, bleeding out and stuff.”
Seven people injured outside the East Hollywood nightclub on Santa Monica Boulevard are in critical condition, six are in serious condition, and ten are in fair condition, according to the LAFD. An additional seven patients refused transport to hospitals after assessment on the scene.
Some witnesses at the scene said they believed they heard gunshots during the incident, which is under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department.
Authorities say it is too early to say if the incident was intentional.
The chaotic scene unraveled just hours after a deadly explosion at a Los Angeles sheriff’s training center on Friday morning. Three officers were killed in the explosion at the Biscailuz Center Academy Training facility, which houses the Sheriff’s department’s special enforcement bureau and arson explosives detail, including the bomb squad.
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The exact cause of the explosion is under investigation, with Sheriff Robert Luna saying, “there’s a lot more that we don’t know than we do know.”
“Our intent is to look at this from the very beginning and figure out what is it exactly that caused this tragic event,” the sheriff continued on Friday, adding that the incident represented the largest loss of life for the department since 1857.