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Reports of gunshots Saturday night led police to find a blood trail on the North Side as an injured man showed up at a hospital, the Madison Police Department said.

Around 9:30 p.m., officers went to the 1500 block of Troy Drive for reports of shots fired. A trail of blood was found outside, which officers followed to a nearby apartment complex, police said. Officers searched two apartments, both of which no one was in, to check the welfare of residents, according to police.

In one apartment, though, casings and blood were found, police said.

Officers were notified while at the scene that a 21-year-old man with non life-threatening gunshot injuries had shown up to an emergency room.

The preliminary investigation suggests the victim and shooter know each other, and it was not a random shooting, police said.

Police are calling the incident an attempted homicide.

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