POUGHKEEPSIE – City of Poughkeepsie police and firefighters responded to the Family Partnership Center on North Hamilton Street Thursday night for reports of a man with a gunshot wound to the leg. City 911 dispatched the first responders at 7:15 p.m.
Firefighters on Engine 2 were on the scene at 7:18 p.m. The victim was located near suite 225, which is the office for SNUG, the gun violence interruption program. A witness at the scene told Mid-Hudson News that earlier on Thursday, SNUG had held a “peace walk” in response to another recent shooting.
Dispatchers advised emergency personnel that the first report came from security personnel at the facility indicating that a man on the second floor of the building was suffering from a “serious leg wound, possibly from a gunshot.” Dispatchers updated the personnel that multiple callers were reporting the incident and one caller reported to be on the second floor called 911 but according to the dispatcher, the caller was “uncooperative.”
A City of Poughkeepsie Fire Department lieutenant radioed in at approximately 7:18 p.m. that the patient had been located near suite 225 and was semi-alert.
Police and ambulance personnel arrived moments later. As the man was being placed into the ambulance, a City of Poughkeepsie Police detective asked the victim if he had been shot. The man indicated that his wound was not the result of gunfire, despite fire and ambulance personnel describing the injury as being from a gunshot.
The detective told the victim that he would meet him at the hospital to review X-Rays to determine if the wound was caused by a bullet.
