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A man shot early Sunday who was found in the 700 block of West Fourth Street by city police at 1 a.m. died about 12 hours later, according to city police.
The man, described as black and believed to be in his 20s, who police declined to identify Sunday, was pronounced dead at 1:30 p.m., said city police Capt. Michael Orwig.
Lycoming County Coroner Charles E. Kiessling Jr. confirmed Sunday night the man had been taken to Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, where Montour County Coroner Scott Lynn was overseeing the post-mortem investigation.
The man was found by city police on the south side of the street shortly after they heard of a report of gunshots fired at 1 a.m. He initially was taken to Williamsport Regional Medical Center, Orwig said.
Throughout the day and evening, city investigators continued to gathered evidence and agents conducted several interviews, Orwig said. No suspect or suspects had been identified by Sunday night.
The shooting came four days after multiple shots were fired at about 8 p.m. Sept. 2 in the area of Louisa Street and Center Street, which is several blocks to the north of West Fourth Street. In that incident, police said, two alleged victims of gunshots in the shootings, who were both black males in their 20s, were treated for their injuries.
Since the start of the year, police have investigated more than a dozen shootings and many more reports of gunshots fired, according to police documents.
On Aug. 19, Rickey D. Moore, 19, allegedly fired a half a dozen gunshots near an apartment complex on Lycoming Street from a van and then sped away, police said.
Gunfire erupted at an apartment in Newberry Estates Aug. 4, the result of which was the death of 18-year-old William “Chaz” Sawyer and the hospitalization of Tyler Wayne Cagle, 20, of 135 Summer St., DuBoistown, police said.
City resident Jamil Bryant, 21, was shot May 19, and later died at a hospital. In that shooting, police were called to the 400 block of Anthony Street, near the intersection with Penn Street, where they found the victim in the middle of the street. He had been shot several times about 10:45 p.m. that night.
On April 25, police responded to the Fifth Avenue Tavern at 1 a.m. after 39-year-old Derrick Jermaine Boone allegedly pulled a handgun during a fight with 29-year-old Yusef Wilson, who collapsed on the bar floor with wounds to the upper body and was taken to Williamsport Regional Medical Center, where he died a short time later. In that incident, Ronald James III, 24, and Ceuana Dunlap, 21, bystanders, were shot in the calf and treated at the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
On April 18, Michael Rakeem Spencer, 33, of the city, allegedly fired into a crowd of patrons outside Club Imbibe, 321 Pine St., about 2:15 a.m. Five bystanders were wounded by gunfire outside the club in the 300 block of Pine Street, police said.
On April 14, two men in their 20s were shot in the 700 block of West Fourth Street, just west of Walnut Street, about 9:10 p.m. Both were taken to Williamsport Regional Medical Center for treatment of non-life threatening gunshot wounds to the lower body, police said.
Nine shots were fired Jan. 6, at Park Avenue and Maple Street; the bullets striking three parked vehicles and the front of a house, police said.