Clearwater police are investigating a shooting at Clearwater Beach on Sunday evening just off Coronado Drive near Pier 60 that sent one person to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Beach access to the south beach area was restricted after the gunfire.

The shooting happened in a busy stretch of the beach at a time when visitors were still nearby, which is part of why the response moved quickly and the area was cordoned off. The incident is being searched now because it changed the evening on the beach immediately and left one person hospitalized while police worked to sort out what happened.

Police said there were also reports of several fights in the area after the shooting, a detail that complicates the picture of what happened on the shoreline. Even with those reports, the shooting was still being treated as an isolated incident, and investigators had not said who was involved or what led up to it.

The Clearwater Deputy Police Chief was scheduled to hold a news conference around 8:30 p.m. to discuss the shooting, giving the first expected public update on whether anyone had been identified and how the events near Pier 60 unfolded. For now, the clearest facts are that one person was hurt, the injuries were not life-threatening, and a section of Clearwater Beach remained restricted while police continued their investigation.