POUGHKEEPSIE – Two men were shot just before 7 p.m. on Friday. Police were first dispatched at 6:43 p.m. for a report of a man shot in the back in the area of 4 Fairmont Street. As police, fire, and EMS were responding, the call was updated to indicate that the victim had continued walking and was now located in the area of 57 S. Clinton Street.
The victim was triaged by Poughkeepsie firefighters and EMS personnel. He was conscious and alert but was reluctant to provide details of the incident prior to being transported by ambulance to Vassar Brothers Medical Center.
Patrol officers and a detective stayed at the South Clinton Street scene searching for evidence and interviewing witnesses. A sergeant and another officer had relocated to the next street over, Virginia Avenue, to look for shell casings. Moments later, at 6:58 p.m., the Virginia Avenue units located a second man with a gunshot wound. The victim was located in the backyard of 20 Virginia Avenue. Poughkeepsie firefighters who had left the South Clinton Street scene five minutes before, turned back and responded to the second victim, followed by an ambulance from Empress.
The victim was semi-conscious and suffering what appeared to be a gunshot wound to the leg. He was loaded into the ambulance and transported to a local hospital with a Poughkeepsie firefighter onboard, assisting the ambulance crew.
A detective was interviewing neighbors and patrol officers were searching the yards and sidewalks in the vicinity of Virginia Avenue and State Street for evidence. A source told Mid-Hudson News that the victims were likely walking south on Virginia Avenue when the gunfire erupted, striking both victims from behind, near the intersection with State Street. The victims, in an attempt to flee from danger, continued moving south on Virginia Avenue. One man went to the backyard of 20 Virginia Avenue while the other, first-reported victim continued south before turning east on Fairmont…
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