CHAPEL HILL - Town Council members voted unanimously and with little discussion Monday night to end the Apple Chill street fair after three people were shot following Sunday's annual event.

"Sunday was the last Apple Chill," Mayor Kevin Foy said at a news conference before the council's regularly scheduled meeting.

"We had a public process to try and deal with Apple Chill-related issues in the past; it didn't work. We made adjustments; they didn't work. We had 230 officers; that's as much security as we can provide," Foy added in a statement. "We cannot continue to be confident that Apple Chill can be conducted in a way that is safe for citizens."

Chapel Hill Police Chief Gregg Jarvies said two men were shot in front of the Caribou Coffee store at 110 W. Franklin St. about 8:40 p.m. One had a bullet graze to the head, and was shot in the chest. The second man was shot in the back. Both were taken to UNC Hospitals. Their names and medical conditions were not available Monday, though police said their injuries were not life-threatening.

A third man was found shot during a traffic stop at East Franklin Street and Elliott Road. That man, Hassan William Breeden, 20, of Durham was shot in the right thigh but refused treatment, police spokeswoman Jane Cousins said.

Police do not know when Breeden was injured or whether he was involved in the earlier incident on Franklin Street.

Breeden is out on bail on assault charges after Durham police say he shot two men at a Wendy's. He also has drug charges pending, court records show.

Arrests and citations

About 30,000 people attended Apple Chill, which featured local and regional craftspeople and music on six stages downtown.

Police arrested 11 people, including two charged with carrying a concealed weapon. Another 87 traffic citations were issued, mostly for helmet and seat-belt violations.

The shootings underscore some residents' feelings that the post-fair event dubbed "After Chill" invites troublemakers who don't live in Chapel Hill to cause problems in the college town.

Many businesses normally open on Sundays closed for the day, and others closed early. A merchants group pushing to end the festival invited Foy and the rest of the Town Council for a tour of problems such as trash and vandalism. Council members Sally Greene and Bill Strom met briefly with the group.

Town Council member Laurin Easthom took her children to the street fair and said they had a great time.

"I think the problem is not Apple Chill," she said. "It's After Chill. ... It's just too bad."

Rising costs

Apple Chill and the unofficial After Chill have become increasingly expensive for the town.

Violence in previous years prompted police to blanket Sunday's event with 235 officers from Chapel Hill and nine other jurisdictions. Officers were posted in front of businesses on the west end of Franklin Street, and others were stationed on rooftops.

Though cost estimates for Sunday's event weren't available, the town spent $87,233 for police, parks and recreation and other costs associated with running Apple Chill last year -- more than double the $43,593 spent the year before.

"The crowded event, particularly after the festival vendors left the area, was tense and dangerous for visitors, public safety officials and other employees working the event," Jarvies said. " We needed every one of the 235 officers."

About 7 p.m. Sunday, the crowd started to shift from families to mostly young adults, some wearing what police think were gang colors.

Roads remained congested until 11 p.m., police said. One of the shooting victims had to be taken from Franklin Street to UNC Hospitals on a John Deere Gator, which is like an all-terrain vehicle with a cab on the back that was retrofitted to hold a gurney.

Ginny Franks, a UNC-Chapel Hill senior, sat in traffic for an hour and 15 minutes to get from campus to her apartment less than three miles away.

She said she endured catcalls, and when she did not respond, "people said I was racist or they called me a cracker."

Franks also saw a woman displaying her breasts near Raleigh Street for men who snapped pictures and took video of her. Families walked nearby, she said.

"It was just the biggest mess and biggest ordeal," Franks said.

Foy, who received more than 100 e-mail messages about the fair, acknowledged that ending it hurts the community's small-town character.

"The town is not the same as it was 35 years ago," he said. "As the town grows, as the region grows, we have to be willing to change."