Jawan Contrail Carroll, 23, in a previous booking photo. Carroll was arrested Saturday, May 22, in connection to a downtown Minneapolis shooting that killed 2 and injured 8.

Two people are dead and eight others injured in a shooting outside the Monarch nightclub in downtown Minneapolis just before 2 a.m.

Police confirmed two men died on the 300 block of N. 1st Ave. on Saturday, May 22. One man is in critical condition and seven other adult victims have non-life-threatening injuries in the mass shooting.

Two men were in a verbal argument among a large group of people outside when they both pulled out guns and started shooting. One of the men who was dead at the scene was believed to be one of the shooters, authorities said.