Police are now probing whether two gunshot victims were injured in the same shooting incident in the Brightwood section of the city.
SPRINGFIELD -- Detectives are investigating whether a second shooting victim who turned up at a city hospital for treatment early Sunday morning may have been targeted in the same North End shooting that injured a man on Orchard Street, according to Springfield Police Lt. Maurice T. Kearney.
In that incident, a man showed up at Baystate Medical Center for treatment of a gunshot wound to the buttocks after someone opened fire on him outside 46 Orchard St. in the Brightwood section of the city, said Kearney, who was unsure of the time of the shooting.
A short while later, a second man arrived at Mercy Medical Center with a gunshot wound to his buttocks, Kearney said. And now police are probing whether the injured men were both shot during the Orchard Street altercation.
"It's under investigation," Kearney said, adding that detectives think the shooting victims might be linked to the same incident.
It remains unclear if the shootings occurred late Saturday night or early Sunday. Police were unable to immediately disclose a time frame for the incidents.
Kearney said no suspects were in custody as of 5 a.m. Sunday.