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NORMAL — Normal police are investigating a Sunday morning shooting that seriously injured two men in a neighborhood of apartments southeast of uptown.

Normal police officers responded about 2:20 a.m. to the 100 block of Flora Way, which is just off Vernon Avenue about two blocks east of Linden Street, because of a report of gunshots fired in the area. When they arrived, they found a 20-year-old man with a gunshot wound.

He was taken to Advocate BroMenn Medical Center, by the Normal Fire Department.

Police then discovered that another 20-year-old man also had been wounded and was taken to BroMenn by a private vehicle before officers arrived.

Both men were admitted and are receiving treatment for their injuries, said Normal Police Chief Rick Bleichner. Initial reports from the hospital indicate the injuries are serious but not considered life-threatening.

The names of the victims have not been released.

Bleichner said responding officers learned that multiple shots were fired at a group of people standing in the parking lot.