Two shot in city shooting

Two men with gunshot wounds showed up at local hospitals this morning, sparking a Charlottesville police investigation into exactly what happened and how and why the men were shot.

Police officials are interviewing two men who walked themselves into the emergency rooms of the University of Virginia Medical Center and Martha Jefferson Hospital. Martha Jefferson Hospital later transferred their patient to UVa, which is a trauma center equipped to treat gunshots.

Police believe the men, both reported to be in their 20s, were wounded while in the 2000 block of Michie Drive, a residential area located near KMart and Kroger off of Hydraulic Road, between the U.S. 250 Bypass and U.S. 29. The shooting itself was not reported and no one reported hearing gunshots, police said.

“We’re still trying to put it all together,“ said Sgt. R. Shaner, of the city police. “Investigators are working on it right now.“

Neither of the men apparently suffered life-threatening wounds, Shaner said.

The city has had a shooting spate as of late. On July 19, 19-year-old Joshua Anthony Magruder was shot and killed near the corner of Sixth Street Southeast and Monticello Avenue. Three men and a woman were arrested in connection with the slaying. Later that day another man was shot in the chest in the same neighborhood and a few weeks later, on Aug. 3, a 26-year-old Charlottesville resident was shot in the leg near West Street and 11th Street N.W..

Two other fatal shootings have occurred in the city this year besides Magruder’s. In June, 11-year-old Aziz Damar Booth was shot to death in his home at 330 Sixth 1/2 St. S.W., in an apparent robbery involving a video game. He was killed about a mile from the Aug. 3 shooting . On April 8, Palmyra resident Shawn Anthony Luck, 29, was shot to death inside a minivan speeding down Fairway Avenue. Two women and one man have been charged in connection with that incident.