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Brothers Calvin Walls, 42, of Bloomington, and David Walls, 40, of Jackson, Miss., were killed in the attack about 8:30 p.m. at the apartment building at 333 Riley Drive. A third brother, Levar L. Walls, was shot at least three times and was doing well in the hospital Wednesday, according to his stepmother, Connie Walls of Bloomington.

"He's out of the woods. He's talking and he's together," she said, later adding he underwent surgery for a crushed femur.

Montell Jones, 29, was the fourth man shot in the incident. No further information on Jones was immediately available.

Michael B. Brown, 30, who lives on the second floor of the building, was arrested Wednesday morning on Rainbow Drive and jailed on accusations he shot the four men with a handgun.

Police said a confrontation that started as a verbal dispute became a physical fight before shots were fired.

Bloomington police spokesman Duane Moss said Wednesday afternoon he didn't know what started the dispute or what happened in the physical confrontation. He also said he didn't know how many shots were fired or how many times each person was shot.

Moss said one of the injured men escaped the building and asked a westbound pickup truck driver for help getting to a hospital. The truck was stopped by police near the intersection of Riley and Mecherle Drive, and the injured man was taken to a hospital by ambulance.

Moss said one man each was taken to OSF St. Joseph Medical Center, Bloomington, and BroMenn Regional Medical Center, Normal. Officials at both referred all inquiries to the police, declining further comment.

Coroner Beth Kimmerling said that when they were pronounced dead, Calvin and David Walls were in a common hallway on the same floor as where the dispute started. They did not live at 333 Riley, but apparently were visiting a resident, the coroner's office said later.

The coroner said she could not comment before an autopsy scheduled for today on how many times Calvin and David Walls were shot. She said she had not inspected the bodies because she wanted to make sure any evidence was intact for the autopsy.

A fourth brother, who asked that his name not be used until authorities released more information on his brothers, was visiting the scene Wednesday morning but said he was not there Tuesday.

"I need to turn the channel, it's like it's a bad movie," he said. "This makes no sense."

Christopher Smith, a neighbor, said an argument over loud music may have been behind the shooting.

"The way this happened was just ridiculous. First there was an argument, then gunfire erupted," Smith said Wednesday morning.

Smith said a woman had come out of 333 Riley to start a car moments before the shooting. Smith said she told him and other neighbors her two children were in the apartment where the argument took place, but the children were taken in by a neighbor during the fight but before the shooting.

Police would not comment on the woman, the children or their roles, if any, in the case.

Smith also said a man was seen running from the complex after the shootings. Other neighbors also heard a woman about that time.

"We saw him break running. He isn't any secret. Everybody knows what he looks like," said Smith.

Meanwhile, Calvin Walls was remembered Wednesday as an easygoing man who always had a smile on his face.

"I saw Calvin every day. He would walk past my house when he worked at the furniture store on West Market Street," said friend Nicole Francis. Calvin Walls worked at Warehouse Furniture in Bloomington, Kimmerling said in a statement.

"He was a nice guy, kind of quiet and easy going," Francis said.

Francis said she was shocked to learn Wednesday that Calvin Walls was one of the shooting victims.

"He came from a big family, I know that. You never heard anything negative about them," said Francis.

Court records show Brown was sentenced in December 2002 to 180 days in jail, 30 months of probation and 50 hours of community service work on a charge of unlawful use of a weapon. He was accused of having a concealed 9 mm pistol, which was later forfeited to Normal police, in 2001.

Brown was also accused in August 2001 of beating and trying to rob a man outside a Normal convenience store. But charges were dropped after a negotiated guilty plea to the weapons charge and a charge of driving while intoxicated.

Ryan Denham contributed to this report.