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The Pawtucket police are working a few different leads in an investigation into last night's shooting.

At about 9:30 p.m., the police were called to 136 Harrison St., a multi-unit building, for a report of shots fired. When officers arrived, they found there had been a "large house party" on the third floor, according to Maj. John Whiting. Front windows had been shot out, and people were fleeing when officers arrived, he said.

One woman was injured, Whiting said. The police initially thought she had been cut by glass from the broken windows, but doctors determined she had been shot after finding metal fragments in her leg.

The injured woman is not being identified, Whiting said, because, it turns out, she was facing charges on an unrelated incident and taken into custody.

There may have been another injury, Whiting said. The police found drops of blood in the house that went down some steps, and over a fence.

The police identified about 40 people at the scene as the crowd dispersed. Now, Whiting said, "we have detectives fanning out, throughout the city and trying to locate people who were in the house" for questioning.

Whiting said just about everyone in the detectives division is working on the case.

"A couple of leads may be substantial," he said. "I don't believe it was random."

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson

 Tags  Pawtucket shooting

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