Police are still working to figure out what lead to a man turning up in a Lexington neighborhood with a gunshot wound. The man was found early Sunday morning in a yard on Burnett Avenue, between North Limestone and Bryan Avenue.
A neighbor on Burnett Avenue says he was asleep when all of a sudden he heard somebody yelling. He came out and found a man in the grass with a gunshot wound.
“I wake up and I hear somebody screaming and yelling for help,” said neighbor Santos Quiros.
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It was a rude awakening for Santos Quiros, and a surprise for other neighbors who didn’t expect to wake up and hear about this happening in their neighborhood.
“I’m very shocked. I’m very surprised. Things do happen, but I am totally shocked to hear that someone was found shot right across the street from me,” said neighbor Mary Washington.
Santos says around 6 Sunday morning, he came out and saw 24-year-old Lamont Butler laying in the grass with a gunshot wound to his stomach and called 9-1-1. Police say Butler was dumped out of a dark SUV into the grass on Burnett Avenue.
“He said I hurt my hand and this and that, he was sweating, shaking and I don’t know what happened after that, they take him,” said Santos Quiros.
When police arrived, they say Butler was complaining that he couldn’t breathe. Butler also asked the officer to call his mom,
and the officer held his hand until the ambulance arrived.
“We’ll be praying for him and his family,” said Washington.
Right now, police say they’re not even sure where the shooting may have happened. They don’t have any suspects in the case yet.
Butler was taken to UK Hospital for surgery.There have been no other updates on his condition.
