According to a report from The New York Times, authorities don’t believe there’s a link between the shooting of a Ferguson police officer over the weekend and recent protests over the police-involved shooting death of an unarmed 18-year-old black man last month.

Two suspects in the shooting of the police officer are still at large and being sought by police, The Associated Press reports.

According to St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar’s comments at a news conference on Sunday, the suspects ran from a Ferguson police officer when they were approached at a community center that was closed. As the officer ran after the suspects, one of the suspects turned and shot at the officer, wounding him in the arm.

Although Belmar admitted that there were several protests over the shooting of Michael Brown taking place on the night that the officer was shot, he said he was confident that no link between the two incidents exists.

“It didn’t happen within the proximity of the protest area,” Belmar said at the news conference. “This is a fairly secluded area. I wouldn’t have any reason to think that it was linked in any way, shape or form.”