EDISON -- Two people were wounded in an early-morning shooting during a Halloween party at a hotel banquet hall in Edison, authorities said.

Dozens of revelers in costumes ran out of the E Hotel Banquet and Conference Center on Woodbridge Avenue after shots were fired around 12:40 a.m., according to witnesses.

The injuries to the two people who were shot are not considered life threatening, an Edison police spokesman said.

Derrick Peprah, a 24-year-old Rutgers University student from South Brunswick, said he heard three or four shots as he walked from the parking lot toward the hotel where he was to meet friends at the party.

Peprah said he saw the two wounded men, and others appeared injured as people fled the building in a panic. One man was shot in the leg and another in the lower body, he said.

"It was a nightmare," Peprah said.

He initially thought one of his friends attending the party might have been shot, but later found out that they were all are OK, he said.

Police said Friday morning they continue to interview witnesses and look for suspects.

A clerk who answered the phone at the hotel said no one was available to comment.

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