Police are investigating three separate shootings all within a few hours of each other.
Police responded to an attempted robbery that ended in a shootout in a neighborhood, and two other calls of shots fired around the city Wednesday night. They are currently working to see if all three of the incidents are connected.
Police say it all started with bullet casings lining the street on Hawthorne Lane after a drive-by shooting around 6 p.m. The street was shut down for hours as they investigated. They say no one was injured, but a car and a house were hit.
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Then about 30 minutes later, police were called to a home on Howard Street for another report of shots fired. We’re told a house was damaged by gunfire, but no one was hurt
The latest incident was around 11 p.m. when a woman on a street flagged an elderly man down and asked him for a ride. Police say she directed him to Hawkins Avenue, where two men walked up to him and pointed guns at him. The woman jumped out of the car and the man tried to drive off, but police say the men fired at his car. That’s when he took out a gun and returned fire until the three ran off. The man’s car and a house were both hit, but again, thankfully no one was hurt.
Police are still trying to determine if all three of these reports of shots fired are related.
Lexington police said Thursday that 75 shootings happened in Lexington last year. As of right now, 44 shootings have happened this year, putting the city about nine ahead compared to the same time last year.
They say that the shootings are not random so neighbors don’t have to worry about being targeted.
So far, no suspects have been named in any of the three shootings.
