Three men were talking in a St. Paul bar parking lot Monday night when shots rang out and they were each wounded, police said Tuesday.

Paramedics took the three to Regions Hospital in St. Paul with injuries that did not appear life-threatening after the 10:25 p.m. shootings, said Sgt. Mike Ernster, a St. Paul police spokesman. The motive was unknown and no arrests had been made.

“We heard some bangs … we were pretty terrified,” said Matt Pirkl, co-owner and general manager of the Foundry Pub, of hearing the gunshots are outside the bar at Jackson Street and Maryland Avenue. Related Articles Neighborhood girl finds and returns chef Justin Sutherland’s stolen knife roll

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A 26-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the leg came into the bar and they immediately called police, said Pirkl, who did not know that other men were also shot.

Officers found a 28-year-old man who’d been shot in the back and a 32-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the elbow, Ernster said.

Pirkl said things were relaxed at the bar Monday night and he didn’t have the faintest idea about why the shootings occurred outside.