
The three men shot dead in a Southern California bowling alley have been identified.

Family members identified the three fatalities as: 28-year-old Astin Edwards, 28-year-old Robert 'Tank' Meekins and 20-year-old Michael Radford.

Shots rang out at about 11.54pm on Friday after a brawl between patrons at the Gable House Bowl in Torrance, witnesses said.

Investigators with the Torrance Police Department have secured the scene and are working to identify the suspect or suspects, police said. It is unclear whether there were multiple gunmen.

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Robert 'Tank' Meekins, 28, (left and right) was identified as one of the fatalities. He was father to a five-year old boy.

Astin Edwards, 28 (left), and Michael Radford, 20 (right) were also identified by family as killed in the shooting

Torrance police officers investigate a shooting at the Gable House Bowl in Torrance, California on Saturday

Latrice Radford reacts emotionally and is consoled as she awaits news of her brother Michael Radford, 20, and his condition outside a crime scene at the Gable House Bowl. She later learned that Michael Radford died in the shooting

'We had to all come up here. They said, 'Get up here quick.' Blood was coming out of his heart,' Dwayne Edwards told CBSLA of watching his son die.

'I'm gonna bury my own kid, you ain't supposed to bury your own kid,' the grieving father said.

He said his son was trying to break up a fight before the shooting erupted.

The grieving mother of Meekins told KABC-7 her son left behind a five-year-old son. Angeline Hubbard said her son doesn't deserve to die and pleaded for the gunman to surrender to authorities.

'My son was a loving person. He loved life and he loved is family,' she said. 'Oh, my God ... Nobody can imagine what I'm going through right now.'

Radford was also a new father with a young child, his family said.

Two people were taken to a local hospital for their injuries, Torrance police said, while two others will seek their own medical treatment.

An officer (left) attempts to help a bleeding and unresponsive male, as a female bystander (right) screams for an ambulance and yells 'call his f**king baby momma' in the chaotic aftermath of the shooting late Friday in Torrance, California

Horrifying video of the shooting aftermath (above) shows the chaos after shots rang out following a brawl in the bowling alley

Police rope off the scene of a shooting at a bowling alley in Torrance, California, early Saturday. The Torrance Police Department responded to calls of 'shots fired' at the Gable House Bowl shortly before midnight on Friday

Torrance police officers investigate a shooting at the Gable House Bowl in Torrance on Saturday

People gather outside of the Gable House Bowl following a shooting in Torrance, California on Saturday

A map shows the location of the bowling alley where three were killed and four injured in a shooting late Friday night

A Los Angeles Times reporter wrote on Twitter that people outside the venue were throwing up and relatives are screaming. One man at the scene has bandages on his back and is wearing a torn and bloodstained shirt.

A shocking video has emerged that was taken inside the venue in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. It shows a male victim lying covered in blood on the ground while a female kneels next to him.

Screaming can be heard in the background while an officer cuts a blood-soaked shirt from the motionless man as the woman pleads for help.

'You have to get an ambulance now! I'm holding it, I'm putting pressure' the woman screams at the officer.

'I know! I know!' the officer responds. 'I don't have an ambulance. I'm trying ok?'

'Call his f**king baby momma please!' the woman continues. 'You have to apply pressure!'

'Get on Instagram, get on Instagram!' the woman shouts at another bystander, in an apparent attempt to contact the shot man's loved ones.

Early reports are that three people have been killed and four others injured in the shooting that followed a brawl

Police guard the Gable House Bowl center after three men were killed and four injured in a shooting at the bowling alley

Police investigators search the Gable House Bowl center after a shooting at the bowling alley in Torrance, California

Torrance police officers investigate a shooting at the Gable House Bowl. Early reports are that three people have been killed and four others injured in the shooting that followed a fight at the bowling alley

The Torrance Police Department responded to 'reports of shots fired with multiple victims down' at Gable House Bowl shortly around midnight this morning

Three men have been killed and at least four others are wounded after a shooting at a bowling alley in California

Families and friends of the victims gathered outside the Gable House Bowl venue in Torrance, California

D Ryon Thomas, who posted the video, wrote on Facebook: 'Gunshot fired. I'm okay just my few scraping on my legs. I heard ppl died n injured. I was distance away but people ran in our room.'

Police urged people to 'stay away from the area' near the bowling alley. It was not immediate clear whether there was just one or multiple shooters.

Patron Jesus Perez was inside the venue at the time. He told the Los Angeles Times that there had been a 'big fight' prior to the incident and he heard about four gunshots.

'We just ran right into the bar and took cover. All we heard was just, like two people got shot,' he told the newspaper.

Perez sheltered for about 15 minutes before a security guard escorted him outside via the back exit.

Other witnesses also reported seeing a fight between customers just prior to the shooting. Whether or not this confrontation was the cause of the violent shooting has not been confirmed by police.

Wes Hamad, 29, told NBC4I that he was at the bowling alley with his 13-year-old niece and cousin when they witnessed a 'huge fight' that descended into 'complete chaos'.

Hamad told the news outlet that the fight blocked the entrance of the venue.

'I grabbed my niece and started running towards the far end of the bowling alley,' he said. 'As we were running, we heard 15 shots.'

Gable House is described on its website as a gaming venue that offers bowling, laser tag and a full arcade.

Torrance, California, is a coastal city about 20 miles from Los Angeles.