Police said they recovered seven shell casings from a Sunday morning shooting near the intersection of Sullivan and Armory Streets in the Liberty Heights' enclave of Hungry Hill.
A flurry of shooting reports kept Springfield police busy early Sunday morning.SPRINGFIELD -- City police responded to a flurry of back-to-back shooting reports early Sunday morning, including a 1:28 a.m. incident outside a Hungry Hill house party near the intersection of Sullivan and Armory streets.
Responding officers recovered seven shell casings after gunfire erupted as a Sullivan Street house party was breaking up for the night, police said.
There were no immediate apparent victims in the shooting. But a ranking police official urged officers to be on the lookout for possible gunshot victims, who may show up at area hospitals via "private transport" rather than by ambulance. Some city shooting victims don't call 911 for help, but rather get driven by acquaintances to various hospitals in and around Springfield.
Initial scanner reports for the incident in Hungry Hill, an enclave in the Liberty Heights neighborhood, indicated that uniform patrol officers collected the shell casings for the city's Detective Bureau in case any victims emerge.
"Someone popped off (a gun)" as the Sullivan Street party was ending, according to an officer who responded to the call.
"We have seven shell casings," he told a commanding officer.
The Hungry Hill call was sandwiched between shooting reports at 1:27 a.m.outside 20 Cleveland St. -- located a block away from Sullivan Street -- and at 1:34 a.m. in front of 90 Central St. in the South End. The Cleveland Street report may be linked to the Sullivan Street report.
Additional information about the Central Street shooting report, which occurred near the intersection of Morris and Ashmun streets, wasn't immediately available.
THE MAP BELOW shows the approximate location of a Sunday morning shooting incident outside a Sullivan Street address in Springfield's Hungry Hill neighborhood: