Las Vegas police investigate a triple shooting that occurred before sunrise Monday outside Minxx strip club on Wynn Road near Tropicana Avenue. Photos by Gary Thompson. Las Vegas police spokesman Jose Montoya addresses reporters during a news conference Monday about two shootings that occurred earlier in the morning. Four people were shot in a one-hour span, two of whom were workers at the Minxx strip club.

NBA revelers were relatively peaceful for the first few days of All-Star festivities until a one-hour stretch early Monday morning when the massive party was winding down and tempers flared at some locations, Las Vegas police said.

Four people were shot, including three who were critically injured, during two incidents that occurred between 4 and 5 a.m. at two locales on or near the Strip, said Jose Montoya, Las Vegas police spokesman.

One man was shot in the hip inside the parking garage of the MGM Grand. He declined to press charges, and police are not following up on the incident, Montoya said.

Instead they are focused on the more serious shooting, which occurred outside the Minxx strip club on Wynn Road near Tropicana Avenue.

Three people were shot after three or four patrons of the club were escorted outside for fighting. One of them opened fire, wounding two employees and a patron near the club's entrance, police said.

Blood spatter could be seen Monday morning on one of the double doors at the club.

One worker was shot in the chest, one was shot in the arm and leg, and a female patron was grazed in the head by another bullet, Montoya said. He said all three victims were hospitalized in critical condition.

Montoya said police had heard speculation that NFL cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones of the Tennessee Titans had been involved in the shooting, but those reports had not been confirmed. Jones has had several run-ins with authorities in West Virginia and Tennessee.

Montoya also said he did not know whether any other celebrities were at the club during the time of the shooting. There were reports that rapper Nelly was among the celebrities who had been in the club just before the shooting.

Jones' agent, Michael Huyghue of Axcess Sports & Entertainment in Jacksonville, Fla., said late Monday afternoon that he knew nothing of the incident and would have been told if his client were the subject of a police investigation.

Because Jones is not a "poster child" for model behavior, he has become "an easy target for people to say he's involved in this kind of thing," Huyghue said.

As part of the effort to identify who fired the bullets at Minxx, police were interviewing about 40 witnesses who had been at the club, Montoya said.

Crime scene tape cordoned off half of Minxx's parking lot Monday morning. Officers with the department's gang unit were seen going in and out of the club, but Montoya said the shooting did not appear to be gang-related.

Although Montoya said no arrests had been made, a woman with orange hair was led out of the club in handcuffs. She was barefoot, and her high-heeled shoes were being carried in a bag by a man who escorted her. The woman was put into a green, unmarked sedan.

Montoya said the woman was detained but not taken to jail.

Workers at the club early Monday refused to comment, and several calls to the club throughout the day were not returned. The club remained closed as of 9 p.m. Monday.

Montoya said a private party out of Houston had rented out the club for the weekend.

Several posted signs outside the club promoted an event called Harlem Knights, and there is a strip club of the same name in Houston. The club's Web site promoted the event at Minxx this past weekend.

In between the Monday morning shootings, police had been called about several fights that broke out at Tryst nightclub inside Wynn Las Vegas, Montoya said.

The early morning violence likely was the culmination of several days of partying, Montoya said. The NBA All-Star Game events had begun in the middle of last week.

"After four or five days when people were out on the town partying, getting little sleep, tempers flare, and people get angry," Montoya said. "That's probably why we saw this at the end of the weekend rather than the beginning."

Las Vegas police arrested 362 people since the start of NBA festivities, and 209 of them were from out of town, Montoya said.

Between 80 and 140 people have been arrested during each of the past three New Year's Eve celebrations, which is generally a 12-hour enforcement operation for police, Montoya said.

Review-Journal staff writer Brian Haynes contributed to this report.