Mishawaka police seek information on weekend shootings that injured four people
MISHAWAKA — Police are asking for help from anyone with information about two separate shootings that injured four people Saturday evening.
Police identified the shooting victims Monday, but released no new details about the incidents, including information on possible suspects or the circumstances that led to the shootings. Police have not announced any arrests.
The first shooting occurred around 7:15 p.m. at a house in the 1600 block of Maplehurst Avenue. When police arrived, they found a 16-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to his neck.
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According to a press release from Mishawaka police, there were 10 other juveniles inside the house at the time. The victim was conscious, alert and able to talk to police. He was taken to an area hospital with injuries believed to be non-life threatening. The boy was identified only by his first name in police logs released Monday.
A little more than two hours later, St. Joseph County dispatch received several 911 calls about shots being fired in the parking lot of the Family Express convenience store at 1030 W. Edison Road. Officers from the Mishawaka, South Bend and St. Joseph County police departments responded to the scene, where they found a 42-year-old South Bend woman inside a vehicle who had been shot.
One of the rounds also hit a 61-year-old man, also of South Bend, who was inside a nearby residence in the 1500 block of Hickory Road. Police said the man was in his bed when a bullet, believed to fired at Family Express, hit him in the side.
Police said that during the investigation, a third gunshot victim, a 25-year-old Granger man, came to the emergency room at a local hospital. That man, who had been shot in the abdomen, told hospital staff he had been shot at Family Express.
Police said all three victims in the convenience-store shooting were hospitalized in critical, but stable, condition on Saturday, and that their conditions had not changed Monday afternoon.
The Tribune is not naming the victims because police have not released enough information about the circumstances of the shootings to determine whether publication would identify the victims to their attackers.
Police ask anyone with information to call the Mishawaka Police Department at (574) 258-1684 or Crime Stoppers at (574) 288-STOP
This article originally appeared on South Bend Tribune: Mishawaka police investigate shootings that injured four people
