Three people were injured in an early morning shooting in a St. Paul apartment Thursday.

Officers responded to the shooting in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood about 2:10 a.m. and heard a commotion inside an apartment, said Sgt. Toy Vixayvong, a St. Paul police spokesman. They found a man was shot in his buttocks and woman shot in her back in the building on Aguirre Street and Payne Avenue.

A witness said a group came to to the apartment, talking turned into an argument, and someone pulled out a gun and started shooting, according to Vixayvong.

St. Paul Fire Department medics transported the two from the apartment to Regions Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Soon after, a man arrived at another hospital with a gunshot wound. He also was shot at the apartment and police arrested the man after he was treated, Vixayvong said.

Thursday’s incident brought the number of non-fatal shootings in St. Paul to 16 this year, compared with 26 at the same time last year, according to police department statistics. St. Paul police started a Non-Fatal Shooting Unit last year, with the aim of putting more investigative work into solving such cases. The police chief has said that work is a major contributing factor to a decline in shootings.

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