SPRINGFIELD — Police are investigating after two young women were shot at point-blank range on Tuesday.
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As previously reported, the shooting happened around 3:30 p.m. near Little Joe’s, in the 1200 block of S. Center Street in Springfield.
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“Three or four shots just fired in front of this carryout on Center Street,” a 911 caller told dispatchers in a call obtained Wednesday.
The two people shot, one of which was a minor, didn’t stick around on S. Center Street. Instead, they drove a mile straight to Springfield Regional Medical Center. One of them suffered serious injuries.
Springfield officers pulled all around entrances and informed other people at the hospital that they couldn’t come in.
“The hospital is on lockdown,” one officer said in a newly obtained body camera video.
As reported on News Center 7 at 5:00, body camera video showed what police saw as they investigated a black car in the hospital’s emergency lane. They found not just a blasted-out front passenger window, but also a huge bullet hole in the passenger door.
Officers who responded to S. Center Street learned that the victims had been sitting in a parked car when the attack happened.
Springfield Police declined News Center 7’s request for an interview about the shooting on Wednesday, saying they are tracking down a number of leads that could help them identify a gunman who walked up on the victims.
Customers of the store are upset about the gunfire and how often it happens.
“This is, it’s just crazy,” Travis Milton said. “It’s a messed up world we’re living in. Like, you know, a few years back, we didn’t have so much gun violence.”
No arrests have been made at this point.
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