Shooting on Eldorado Drive in Billings, Suspect Unknown
An early morning shooting in Billings sent one individual to the hospital with “life threatening injuries,” according to the Billings Police Department.
In a post on the @BillingsPD Twitter page, Sgt. Peterson reports the shooting happened at 1:48am Thursday morning (6/3) in the 1400 block of Eldorado Avenue, which is two blocks south of Central Avenue off S. 14th Street West.
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The victim is a 32 year old man who had “several gunshot wounds,” according to the report, and Billings Police say the suspect in the shooting is “unknown” at the time this story was published.
There was another shooting in the 1400 block of 1st Avenue North over the weekend, the fourth shooting related incident in just over a month in that location.
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This is the second report of a shooting in Billings in as many days, with BPD investigating another incident that involved gun fire on Sunday morning (1/17). According to Billings Police, officers responded to a weapons call in the area of 1600 Avenue D around 12:44am on Sunday, but suspects fled before BPD arrived. A 34-year old man who arrived at a local hospital for a non-life threatening injury, was reportedly struck with a round when a disturbance broke out in a parking lot, but BPD believes the victim wasn t involved in the incident.
A suspect in the Sunday morning (1/17) shooting has not been identified as of the posting of this story, but an investigation is on-going, according to the Twitter post from Sgt. Peterson of the Billings Police Department.