BATON ROUGE — The Baton Rouge Police Department is investigating a shooting that left two people injured along North 17th Street. 

According to police, officers responded near the intersection of North 17th and Chestnut streets around 9:50 p.m. on Thursday. Once they arrived, BRPD officers found two gunshot victims: a man and a woman. 

Detectives later learned that the man who was shot was engaged in an argument with a third person, the alleged shooter. According to BRPD, the suspect then pulled out a gun and shot both victims. 

The pair are expected to survive their injuries, police noted.