Two Covington men have been arrested and charged in connection with an earlymorning shooting at a Martin club. Jeffery Edwards, 20, and Eumonze Flowers, 21, are each charged with one count of attempted murder, reckless endangerment and unlawful carrying/possession of a weapon.

Edwards has since been arraigned in Weakley County General Sessions Court and is being held at the Weakley County Detention Center in lieu of $800,000 bond.

Flowers is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday afternoon in Weakley County General Sessions Court. He is currently being held in the Weakley County Detention Center.

The charges stem from an early Sunday morning argument in the parking lot of a local club that erupted in gunfire. According to police reports, a private Omega Psi Phi (Q dogs) fraternity party was letting out about 2:50 a.m. at Chaos on Church Street when gunfire rang out near the middle of the parking lot. Martin officer Jason Arant was patrolling the area at the time and said he heard five shots fired from the location. He immediately began clearing the heavily congested parking lot.

Ten minutes later, Martin dispatchers received a call from Volunteer Community Hospital reporting that a black male, later identified as 21-year-old Chauncey C. Lane, had been brought in with a gunshot wound to the stomach.

At the hospital, one witness to the shooting told police that his friends had been arguing with some "other guys" when a man with a gun grabbed Lane and the two began fighting on the ground. The witness said that when he tried to intervene and break up the fight, the armed man began shooting.

The witness described the shooter as a heavy-set black male, about 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-7 in height, weighing about 300 pounds and wearing a dark-colored jogging suit.

The witness was unable to provide any further information, saying that when the gunfire started, he ran to a car and fled the area.

A second witness to the shooting gave police a similar account, saying he saw the suspect with a black/silver handgun struggling with the victim immediately before hearing the gunshots.

He described the suspect as a black male with a medium complexion, about 5-foot-7 in height, weighing about 260 pounds, and wearing a dark-colored, hooded jogging suit, with the hood up and covering his head.

At the time of the incident, witnesses said the suspect was accompanied by two other black males, one of whom was described as being about 5-foot-7, medium build, with four or five gold teeth.

Lane, the victim of the shooting, was treated for a flesh wound at Volunteer Community Hos-pital in Martin and released.