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Cops probe Gunshots at Big Punisher show

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Police in Pontiac, Mich., are investigating gunshots fired during and after a Big Punisher concert early Friday morning that led to one arrest, three injuries from bullet wounds and an abrupt and chaotic ending to the rapper's show. The police say panic broke out at a concert at the Industry nightclub in Pontiac after a member of the rapper's own security team fired a gun into the air in an effort to calm an unruly crowd. The rapper's security guard is also alleged to have pointed the gun at club security before he and some of Big Punisher's crew tried to flee out a back door, police said. "After he fired the real shots, one of the club's security guards approached him and he pulled the weapon on that person," Pontiac Police Sgt. Conway Thompson said. "His firing of that weapon started a panic among the patrons and they all fled for the exit."

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