The incident took place on early Sunday morning, Xinhua news agency reported.
Norfolk police on Sunday said officers responded to the 5000 block of Killam Avenue for the report of a gunshot disturbance around midnight and found four women and three men suffering from gunshot injuries.
Among the victims transported to the hospital, two died later as a result of their injuries.
Homicide detectives continue to investigate the shooting as police are seeking information from the people.
The US has suffered at least 458 mass shootings so far this year, according to the latest data from Gun Violence Archive.
It was downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm on Friday, but continued to soak the East Coast area with rain, downing trees and damaging homes. Some areas grappled with intense flooding, while hundreds in the city of New Bern and North Carolina required rescue in the early hours of Saturday.
Parts of New Bern and North Carolina were 10 feet underwater after local rivers overflowed their banks. Thousands of people were staying in emergency shelters. Evacuation warnings were issued for 1.7 million people in the region, the US media reported.
Florence was slowly grinding over the eastern states, with winds of 65mph (105km/h). It was expected to keep lashing parts of North and South Carolina into the weekend, according to the Washington Post.
Up to 40 inches of rain and storm surges pushing water inland will produce catastrophic flash flooding, the National Hurricane Centre said.
Two people in Carteret County died due to the storm, officials said. A mother and her infant were killed in Wilmington when a tree fell on their home. According to officials, the child's father was also transported to hospital with injuries.
Two men in their 70s were killed in Lenoir County. One was killed while connecting an electrical generator and another man was killed in a wind-related incident when checking on dogs outside his property.
A county official said that a woman died from cardiac arrest in the town of Hampstead after emergency responders had their route to reach her blocked by downed trees.
The White House announced on Saturday that President Donald Trump approved a disaster declaration for North Carolina a day earlier, an order that opens up federal funding, including housing and home repair grants.
The storm originally made landfall at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on Friday as a category one hurricane.
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper said the hurricane was likely to "continue its violent grind for days" and described the severity of the downfalls as a "1,000 year event".
Almost 800,000 people are reported to be without power in North Carolina and officials have warned that restoring electricity could take days or even weeks.
Ravin Gandhi, founder and CEO of GMM Nonstick Coatings, a global supplier of coatings for cookware and bakeware, penned an op-ed for CNBC following the Charlottesville racial violence but in response was slammed and racially abused by readers, the Chicago Tribune reported.
At least one woman was killed and dozens were injured in Charlottesville last week during clashes between white supremacists and counter-protestors at a rally. Trump, instead of blaming white supremacists, held both sides responsible for the violence and was criticised by both Democrats and Republicans for the response.
"I recently told the New York Times I was ‘rooting' for certain aspects of Trump's economic agenda," Gandhi, 44, wrote in the article.
"After Charlottesville and its aftermath, I will not defend Trump even if the Dow hits 50,000, unemployment goes to 1 per cent, and GDP grows by 7 per cent... I will not in good conscience support a President who seems to hate Americans who don't look like him.
"The fact that Trump equated hate groups with those protesting hate lit me up," Gandhi said. "His moral leadership on this issue is reprehensible."
US-born Gandhi, after his op-ed was published, received a voicemail from an alleged Trump supporter, who told him to "get your (expletive) garbage and go back to India".
"You can take that other half-(expletive) Bangladesh creep with you, Nikki Haley," the woman said in the message.
"She's the one that started all this when she took down the Confederate flag. So don't tell us that you gave him a chance. We don't give a (expletive) who you gave a chance, OK? We're going to start taking down Buddhist statues and see how you and Nikki Haley like that."
The caller told Gandhi to "go clean up your own (expletive) country, it's a filthy mess".
He soon posted the voicemail on the social media and also shared the nastier emails he received, the report said.
"It was obvious that people thought my professional position somewhat protected me," he said. "I wanted to show people that racism is blind to socio-economics.
"Even though my race is a complete non-issue in my day-to-day life, the sad reality is there's a group of racists in the USA that views me as a second-class citizen," he said.
"I wanted my peers in the business community, the civic community, my friend community to see that this can happen to me. Because there's this delusion that racism is dead because (Barack) Obama was elected (President)," Gandhi said.
He said while his sharing a "bigoted" voicemail may not make a big difference, he will speak out against such abuse as long as he has a platform to do so.
"No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin or his background or his religion..." Obama tweeted Saturday night, quoting Nelson Mandela from the former South African president's autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom."
Alongside the tweet, Obama posted a picture of himself smiling at toddlers of different racial backgrounds, which was taken at a day-care centre in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2011 by then-White House photographer Pete Souza.
Obama also sent two additional tweets to complete the full Mandela quote, Xinhua news agency reported.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the Obama tweet has had more than 3.7 million likes, making it the most-liked tweet of all time. It also ranks seventh among the most retweeted tweets according to tweet tracking site Favstar.
The previous most-liked tweet belongs to pop star Ariana Grande whose response to a deadly bombing at her concert in England was liked 2.7 million times.
The August 12 post, Obama's first tweet in three weeks, came after deadly white supremacist violence erupted in Charlottesville, a historic college town, over the weekend.
Obama keeps one of the most-followed Twitter accounts, with 93.5 million followers while, his successor Donald Trump, a more prolific Twitter user, only maintains 35.9 million followers for his primary account.
One person was killed after a car mowed down a group of protesters in the city of Charlottesville on Saturday while the two other victims, Virginia State Police Department officers, died when a helicopter crashed nearby, reports The Hill magazine.
The crash is being investigated and it remained unclear if it was connected to the protests.
The University of Virginia Health System said 20 people were hospitalised after the car ploughed into the group of people protesting near a popular pedestrian mall in the college town.
The events on Saturday took place after dozens of white nationalists carrying torches held a rally in Charlottesville on Friday, where they were seen using Nazi salutes.
They were protesting against the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe in declaring a state of emergency said he was "disgusted by the hatred, bigotry and violence these protesters have brought to our state over the past 24 hours".
"Go home...You are not wanted in this great commonwealth. Shame on you."
The demonstrators defied the authorities' attempt to restore order, throwing bottles at one another and using pepper spray in the city's downtown area.
President Donald Trump condemned the violence, but did not specifically mention white nationalists, neo-Nazis, or their views, instead criticising hatred and violence "on many sides", reports The Hill magazine.
"We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides - on many sides," he said, adding that the task now "is a swift restoration of law and order and the protection of innocent lives".
However, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, who was on the scene in Charlottesville, condemned the President's statement, tweeting that "our people were peacefully assembling" but were attacked by "radical leftists".
"So, after decades of White Americans being targeted for discriminated and anti-White hatred, we come together as a people, and you attack us?" he wrote.
In recent weeks, Charlottesville has been the scene of chaotic demonstrations by white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan groups upset over the planned removal of the Lee statue.
The city council voted to remove the statue earlier this year, but it remains in place in city's Emancipation Square.
Dozens of Ku Klux Klan members demonstrated in the city last month, following a protest in May.