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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A man was arrested after police say he shot and injured a man at the 18-and-over Lotus Nightclub in Downtown Albuquerque early Friday morning around the time bars let out for the night.

The suspect, whom police identified as Sir Joseph Cotton but who was also identified as Sir James Cotton, 19, in jail records, is facing multiple charges, including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

Officers were called to the shooting at Lotus around 1:45 a.m. and found a man had been shot in the leg. The victim told officers what the suspect looked like, and a DWI officer spotted Cotton a couple blocks away.

He was arrested and officers discovered that the gun he allegedly used in the shooting was stolen.

The victim apparently survived the shooting, though police didn’t elaborate on his condition.

Cotton was taken to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing, and was later booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center on charges of tampering with evidence and receiving or transferring a stolen firearm, along with the aggravated battery charge.

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The shooting comes after Mayor Richard Berry announced a plan last week to increase police presence Downtown due to what area businesses have complained is rampant crime.

On Oct. 14, 2014, 23-year-old Kyle Ntiforo was gunned down in an alleyway outside Lotus Nightclub after getting into a fight inside. Brothers Tim and Tory Burdex was arrested in the killing in January 2016. Tory Burdex was acquitted by a jury earlier this year, and the charges against Tim Burdex were dropped late last year, according to online court records.

The next summer, in June 2015, a man at Lotus allegedly shot another man who was staring at him. The victim survived.