Patrons of a Lawrence strip club got a scare – but no one was injured – after gunfire erupted in the parking lot early Wednesday morning.

The incident occurred about 1:15 a.m. outside of AllStars, 913 N. Second St. Witnesses called 911 about a fight involving three or four people. Gunshots could be heard by dispatchers speaking with the witnesses, Lawrence Police Capt. David Cobb said.

AllStars manager Will Reed said he didn’t think bar patrons were involved in the melee. But the incident put patrons at a “real risk,” he said.

“Customers were outside abiding by the city’s no-smoking policy, and they saw a couple of cars pull in from the street and stop at the mouth of the parking lot,” Reed said. “They thought it looked like trouble and told me and I called the police. This has nothing to do with the club.”

Cobb said officers saw about 50 people in or trying to leave the area.

Officers sealed off the parking lot at the bar. No one was found to be injured, Cobb said, and no one claimed shots were fired at them. Some people were uncooperative and refused to discuss what had happened, Cobb said.

Three bullets were recovered on the scene: one in a handrail and two others in two separate cars. Cobb said the matter was being investigated as a criminal damage incident.

A search warrant was conducted in connection with the shooting late Wednesday morning in the 1600 block of West Fourth Street.

Officers also are searching for people involved with the incident or who witnessed it.