City police are investigating a shooting with injuries reported on North Fulton Avenue on Wednesday night.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — City police are investigating a shooting with injuries reported on North Fulton Avenue Wednesday night.
Evansville Police officers were called to the 1800 block of North Fulton about 8 p.m. Wednesday for a report of shots fired.
They found a man down on the sidewalk bleeding from a gunshot wound.
The 23-year-old man was shot in the thigh, police say, and was taken to the hospital.
A witness said he saw a man wearing all black run from the scene and through a nearby apartment complex. A K-9 unit tried to track the person but was unsuccessful.
Evansville Police have already responded to several shootings in the city this year. Bullet holes were found in a house and car on Keller Street Monday, just a few blocks away from the shooting on North Fulton.
One man was injured in a shooting at the West Side VFW this weekend, where civilians subdued a 70-year-old man accused of trying to shoot several bystanders while looking for a person he had argued with earlier. The man who was shot is expected to survive.
Overall, shots fired reports and shootings were down in 2018 compared to 2017, according to EPD records.
Anyone with information on these or other cases can call Evansville Police Department at 812-436-7979.
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