Douglas Walker

dwalker@muncie.gannett.com

MUNCIE – City police said an attempted break-in at a northside home Friday morning resulted in the shooting of an intruder.

Emergency dispatchers received a call at 9:26 a.m. from a person in the parking lot of the Aldi store, at 108 W. McGalliard Road, who reported hearing gunshots nearby.

A few minutes later, a 22-year-old Muncie man showed up in the emergency department of IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital, seeking treatment for a bullet wound in one of his legs.

According to city police Sgt. Daxton Lovell, investigators determined the shooting had taken place at a house in the 200 block of East Dartmouth Avenue.

The man who was wounded and an accomplice had allegedly tried to burglarize that residence and were confronted by an occupant. The shooting apparently took place during a struggle.

A crime scene was established at the Dartmouth Avenue address, which is about three blocks north of the Aldi store.

The man’s bullet wound was not believed to be life-threatening. He apparently continued to be treated at the hospital several hours after being shot.

Investigators declined to release his name until they had a chance to interview him.

Friday’s shooting was Muncie’s third since late Wednesday, when two young Muncie men were found, about six blocks apart in a southeastside neighborhood, with gunshot wounds.

Those men declined to discuss the events that led to their bullet wounds, police said.

Contact news reporter Douglas Walker at (765) 213-5851. You can also follow him on Twitter: @DouglasWalkerSP.

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