INDIANAPOLIS — A TV news cameraman and a freelance photographer were shot while covering a fire at a vacant house early Friday, and police later made an arrest in the case.

Neither man was seriously injured and both were released after treatment at Methodist Hospital, police said.

The incident occurred about 2:30 a.m. as firefighters battled a fire at a vacant house on the city’s near east side.

WISH-TV photographer Kevin Hankins, 23, said he was filming the fire scene about 2:30 a.m. when he was shot in the back.

“All of a sudden I felt and heard a smack and a pop on my left back,” he said. He lifted his shirt and discovered he was bleeding.

The freelance photographer, who was working for the Indianapolis Fire Department, was shot in the arm. Authorities did not immediately release his name.

A bullet also apparently struck an air tank worn by a firefighter, but the firefighter was not injured, Indianapolis police spokesman Sgt. Paul Thompson said.

Derek L. Matthews, described as a person of interest in the case, was arrested about nine hours later, police said. He had spoken to the photographers before they were shot, asking why they weren’t around when he had been shot.

Thompson said investigators believe the shots came from an alley where several people were standing.