Suspect Sought in Shooting in Binghamton Neighborhood

This story has been updated to reflect that city detectives say a man was wounded. Initial reports indicated the person who was shot was a woman.

Binghamton police are trying to locate the person who shot a man in a residential neighborhood.

Multiple gunshots reportedly were heard shortly after 8 p.m. Monday in the area of the Saratoga Terrace apartment complex on the South Side.

Police sealed off sections of Dewey Avenue and Montour Street just south of Saratoga Avenue.

Yellow evidence markers were placed in the roadway on Dewey Avenue as officers and detectives secured the scene.

The injured man reportedly sustained a gunshot wound to a hand. She was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Police at the scene did not comment on the shooting.

The incident happened near the apartment building where a woman was fatally stabbed on July 3. A Binghamton man has been charged with murder in the death of 27-year-old Takecia Mitchell.

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