NIAGARA FALLS —
Falls police are on the hunt for a gunman who shot up a car in a parking lot of Unity Park on Tuesday night.
Officers responded to a call of “shots fired” about 7:15 p.m. and when they arrived, found a car , in the 3300 block of Ninth Street, that had been hit with at least three gun shots. Witnesses told police a man with a silver revolver had shot at the car and then fled with two other men in either a car or an SUV.
Police said no one was injured during the shooting.
Information from witnesses then led officers to a home in the 1800 block of South Avenue. For a brief period of time, police thought the suspect may have been inside the house and called for the Emergency Response Team.
Before the ERT could deploy, officers were able to enter and search the home and did not find the suspect.
The suspect is described as a black male in his 20s, about 5-feet-8 and weighing about 250 pounds. He was last seen wearing a brown sweatshirt that may have had the letter C on it.
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Niagara Falls Police respond to 3321 Ninth Street in Unity Park after a report of shots fired in the area.
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Niagara Falls police speak to a witness in the 3300 block of Ninth Street in Unity Park Tuesday night after he said he heard shots fired in the area. Dan Cappellazzo
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Niagara Falls Police respond to 3321 Ninth Street in Unity Park after a report of shots fired in the area.
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