Two people were killed and six others were wounded during a shooting early Sunday morning near the Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, officials said.

The shooting broke out in a residential neighborhood two blocks from the south side of the university, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Anthony Caputo, director of the New Brunswick Police Department.

"Thus far the investigation has determined that there is no affiliation with Rutgers University or its students," Ciccone and Caputo said in a joint statement.