NEW YORK - Five men were shot outside a banquet hall early Sunday in a chaotic chain of gunfire that left one dead and another wounded by a police sergeant's bullet, police said.

Bullets were strewn across a Brooklyn street and distraught witnesses wailed and fell to their knees after the gunfire erupted around 1 a.m.

Police said the havoc began when one man, whose age wasn't known, shot three others, killing one, on Atlantic Avenue near the East New York neighborhood.

Then the gunman was shot himself by a second shooter who ran off with an accomplice, police said.

Two officers and a sergeant heard the gunfire and chased the second gunman, who was still armed, down Atlantic Avenue before the sergeant shot him while endeavoring to arrest him, police said.

The 21-year-old, wounded in the leg, was in custody and in stable condition at a local hospital, police said. His alleged accomplice, 22, who wasn't injured, was also in custody.