Man recovering after Middletown shooting

A man is recovering from a non-life-threatening shooting late Saturday night in Middletown, according to police.

Officers received a call about 11:40 p.m. about a person with a gunshot wound in that area of Lefferson Road and Spring Garden Street. They found the injured 20-year-old man outside and he was transported to Atrium Medical Center for treatment.

Detectives are investigating the incident as a felonious assault and are still trying to determine how the shooting occurred.

Dispatchers receive three 911 calls after shots rang out. One caller said she heard a shot and a victim was in a ditch.

A caller who did not know exactly where he was but said he was “past some apartments.”

“We are in Middletown We need a ambulance. We got a gunshot victim,” the caller told dispatchers.

He said the victim was at the basketball courts and the victim was “hit in the chest.”

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