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He is not believed to have been the target in the attack and may have been a perpetrator, Maj. Matt Haines said.
“It appears that the person that was in that vehicle was likely a target of some sort of either an attack or robbery here,” Haines said. “At this point we believe he was just fleeing the area after the attack occurred. He stopped right away for the police.”
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Investigators are working to determine who injured the 21-year-old man found in the street and the motive behind the attack.
It is not clear how many people were involved, but the sheriff’s office is working on interviewing multiple witnesses. A search warrant has been executed on the house where the man who investigators believe was the intended target was at during the shooting. Details about what was discovered at the house were not available.
Crews found more than 20 shell casings in the area and multiple homes and vehicles were hit by gunfire, Haines said.
At least two weapons were used during the attack. Evidence technicians are working to determine the type and number of weapons involved.
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“This is another tragedy and didn’t need to occur, but we are lucky because when you have at least 20-something shell casings that are left around here and people firing at random we’re lucky that a child or somebody that was asleep in bed wasn’t struck or a car passing by,” he said.
Police received multiple 911 calls about the shooting, which was first reported around 2 a.m. in the 200 block of Fer Don Road.
One man who called said a group of about five people were shooting at his house and that there was a person laying in the road.
“I don’t know if they were shooting and they hit the wrong person,” he said. “They hopped into a car and left.”
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A woman who also lived on Fer Don Road told dispatchers that she was sleeping when she heard gunfire.
“We just had a drive-by shooting and there’s a guy laying out in the street,” she said.
When she went outside to check on the man, she said he was covered in blood.
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