Two men were injured and storeowners are angry and scared by the violence.

"I heard about three shots, maybe four shots," said one witness.

Dozens of people heard and watched the gun battle unfold right outside their stores. It's a busy shopping center, mostly Vietnamese-owned stores on the 7100 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Way.

It began, just before 11a.m. in the Boda Cafe. Two groups of Vietnamese men began arguing. The argument exploded into gunfire.

"I saw two guys pass my door," says Tammy Le, owner of Tammy's Deli, "and one shoot and one run, and they go around this car, and they shoot, 'boom boom boom boom boom.' "

The gun battle continued into the parking lot. Bullet cases littered the asphalt, and blood on a surrounding brick wall marked the violence. At that time of the morning, dozens of people were already working.

"I tell everyone just 'Down, get down make sure everything safe,' " says Le.

This is a busy neighborhood shopping center -- the kind of place where moms and dads bring their kids every day. And business owners are scared and angry that this kind of violence could happen right in the middle of the day.

"It's a pretty peaceful community around here," says Khuong Hoang, "and to have something happen like that is kind of upsetting. It's not fair to the rest of the people."

The men involved in the shooting left the shopping center in two cars. Two with gunshot wounds in the arm were treated at the hospital and released. Police were questioning all eight men, but by late in the day had not made any arrests.

"We may lose the business because the incident happened," says one storeowner, who did not want to be identified.

Many of the people in this small Vietnamese community are reluctant to speak openly about what happened, for fear of retaliation.

"People around here, they know something," says Heidi Dang, owner of two neighborhood stores. "But they don't want to go forward, to tell the truth, to tell the police or to tell the report nothing."

Seattle's gang unit is investigating, but police say they don't have a motive. The neighborhood doesn't much care why, they just want it stopped.