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Two young people are dead and several others were injured when a house party spiraled into chaos and gun violence, local officials in Washington state said.

Just after midnight, Pierce County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a large house party south of Tacoma. Dozens of young people were reportedly running and screaming in the suburban neighborhood, the sheriff’s department said on social media.

An altercation apparently began inside the home before multiple callers reported a fight breaking out in the street, Sheriff's Deputy Carly Cappetto told USA TODAY. Just as deputies arrived, shots rang out as people and cars fled the area, located just east of Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

“Vehicles were getting stuck in the neighborhood while chaos embodied the entire street,” the sheriff’s department statement said. Cappetto said deputies had to tend to injured people on the front lawn and on the road.