Police have located the victim in a shooting that took place Wednesday night outside a building on the University of Arizona campus, authorities said.
Officers responded to a call of shots fired shortly after 7:30 p.m.,Β near the Keating Bioresearch Building, near the corner of East Helen Street and North Warren Avenue, department spokesman, Sgt.Β Filbert Barrera, said in a news release.
Police found shell casings and a small amount of blood, but were unable to locate a victim or suspects.
A hospital told police that at about 9 p.m., a 23-year-old man came in seeking treatment for a gunshot wound to his buttocks.
The victim told investigators he'd ridden the Sun Link streetcar to the Warren Avenue stop, and was approached by three males when he got off, Barrera said.
One of the men shot at the victim multiple times, striking him once in the buttocks, before the suspects fled in a dark colored SUV, Barrera said.
Detectives believe the victim and the suspects previously had an altercation off campus, and the victim was targeted in the shooting, Barrera said.
University police sent out several alerts, warning students to avoid the area and be on alert for suspicious people. Based on those alerts, a witness was able to assist UAPD in creating a sketch of one of the suspects.
The man was released from the hospital this morning.
The investigation is ongoing, and anyone with information is asked to call UAPD at (520) 621-8273 or 911.
