Crime scene tape hangs on a street sign near the 5500 block of Oak Bark in Whitehaven on Tuesday.

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By Daniel Connolly and David Royer of The Commercial Appeal

Two shootings a few blocks apart in Whitehaven left four men wounded Tuesday, Memphis police said.

Officers first responded to the Charter Oaks townhomes in the 5400 block of Oak Hollow at 2:45 p.m., where a man, 22, told police he'd been sitting on a porch when he heard shots fired. After running from the scene, the man noticed he'd been shot in the arm, police said.

Another man at the complex, age 20, was also shot in the arm, police said. That man told police he saw several shots fired from a dark green 1998-2002 Nissan Maxima. A vehicle at the scene had also been shot, but there was no victim.

Both men went to Methodist South by private vehicle and were treated, but they refused to press charges, police said.

Another shooting late Tuesday night left two people wounded, according to news reports and a witness at the scene.

One man said he returned to an apartment complex near Winfield Road after work and was just about to leave again when someone began shooting at him.

Police said two men received non-fatal injuries in the shooting, which also struck two vehicles, according to a police report released Wednesday morning. Two other residents in the complex reported bullets flying in their apartments, but they were not injured.

A police officer told a reporter to leave, saying the entire area was a crime scene. A bullet hole was clearly visible in a window.

Officers believe the later shooting may be a retaliation shooting from an incident that occurred earlier in the same apartment complex, according to the police report. >