A shooting outside of Birmingham’s East Lake Park Tuesday afternoon left two men wounded, one of them seriously.
Birmingham police at 12:40 p.m. received a call of person shot in the 8100 block of Fourth Avenue. When they arrived, they found an adult male near the tennis courts who had been shot, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald.
His injury is not believed to be life-threatening.
While officers were at that scene, they received a report of a second person shot in the 8900 block of Glendale Drive in South East Lake. Those two locations are just five minutes apart from each other.
Investigators quickly surmised the two shootings were likely linked.
At the Glendale Drive scene, police found a man inside a white sedan who also had been shot. There were bullet holes in the window of his car.
Fitzgerald said police began life-saving efforts until the victim could be rushed to the hospital. At the time of transport, his wounds were life-threatening.
Witnesses said the victim in the white sedan struck another car as he traveled along Glendale, apparently seeking safety at a home there. A woman in the parked vehicle he struck was not seriously injured.
Fitzgerald said both of the men shot had guns, and police are not looking for anything other suspects at this time.
“This is another incident where individuals are choosing violence to handle a situation,’’ he said. “We keep responding to people shot calls because of that.”
“We want to continue to get that message out there that we’re seeing our violence take place because of individuals who are engaging in types of behavior leading up to this,’’ Fitzgerald said. “We hate it, but as long as people keep deciding to choose violence, we’re going to keep seeing people shot. There’s no sugar coating it.”
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