Fullerton Player Shot in Dispute Outside Bar : Altercation: Defensive end Siler is in fair condition. Two Titans are arrested, including running back Pringle.

A Cal State Fullerton football player was shot by an off-duty police officer Thursday during a brawl outside a bar that resulted in the arrest of two other Titan players, including star running back Mike Pringle.

Clarence Siler, a 6-foot-4, 240-pound defensive end from Daytona Beach, Fla., was shot in the right shoulder and was in fair condition at UCI Medical Center in Orange.

The fight marked the third time in two years that Cal State Fullerton football players have been in the news because of fights at nightclubs. In April 1988, an El Toro Marine died after a fight with two Titan players. Last month, a fight involving players broke out at a campus pub, resulting in the spring practice suspension of two players.

Pringle, 22, of Fullerton, who in his senior year last season led the nation in all-purpose yardage with 2,690 yards, was arrested on suspicion of assault.

Andrew Fears, 21, also was arrested on assault charges.

The altercation began about 2 a.m. inside the Carnivale nightclub in Fullerton when a woman apparently accompanying an off-duty Pasadena officer argued with a female friend of the football players, authorities said.

When the officer, identified by Pasadena police as 23-year-old Darin McBride, tried to separate the women, about eight or 10 people apparently attacked him, the sergeant said. “It appears that they had the officer on the ground and began hitting and kicking him in the head,” Fullerton Police Sgt. Becerra said. That’s when McBride grabbed his .380 caliber semi-automatic handgun and fired three or four rounds, he said.

Times staff writer Mike DiGiovanna contributed to this story.