New reports about the shooting of two American embassy workers at a strip club in Venezuela earlier this week say the men actually shot each other during a fight they started inside the establishment.

"They were fighting with each other," said Deisy Ron, the artistic director for Antonella 2012, the strip club in Caracas where the shootings occured. "One of them pulled out a gun and shot the other in the stomach and the leg," she said, quoting other employees. She said she didn't know how the mean got their weapons past the metal detectors.

As it stands, it appears that a military attaché working at the American embassy, identified by local police as Roberto Ezequiel Rosas, was involved in a fight with a civilian employee of the embassy. Venezuelan media reports identify the second man as Paul Marwin.

After a brawl inside the club, guns were drawn and fired. One man was hit in the abdomen and the leg, while the other was shot in the abdomen.

"Apparently it was a fight originating in a nightspot where these people were attacked and shots were fired at them and they suffered gunshot wounds," said police spokesperson Douglas Rico, speaking to television channel Globovision.

The U.S. State Department initially confirmed the altercation but gave few details aside from assurances that neither man's injuries were serious. "Two members of the U.S. Embassy in Caracas were injured during an incident early this morning," said William Ostick, a spokesperson for the State Department. "Medical staff inform us that their injuries do not appear to be life-threatening. Embassy security and health unit personnel are at the hospital and have been in touch with the two individuals and their families," he said.

U.S officials also refused to confirm the location of the shooting. "I am not sure if it was a restaurant, or a nightclub, or what the actual establishment was, but that is why we are in touch with embassy personnel," said Patrick Ventrell, another State Department spokesperson.

But the Twitter account for Antonella 2012 shows plenty if scantily-clad women and advertises a "sexy show." Signs posted outside the strip club proclaim it a gun-free zone. They also bar entry to unaccompanied women, couple and anyone under the age of 30.

Eventually, U.S. officials relented, admitting the shooting involved two American embassy workers at a local strip club. "We of course hold any employees representing the United States, no matter where they work, to a high standard, but we'll let the final details of the process work themselves through," said State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki.

Initially, reports assumed the shootings were related to the high crime rate in Caracas. The city has the highest murder rate in South America and the sixth highest murder rate of any large city in the world.