Thursday, March 7, 2013
West 40th shooting probed
Detectives from the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department are still sorting out the details of an incident that left one man with a gunshot wound Tuesday afternoon.
Luther Ruth, 23, was transported to Memorial University Medical Center after Central Precinct patrol officers found him with a non-life threatening wound to his leg about 3:30 p.m. in the 600 block of West 40th Street.
Police responded to a shooting call to find Ruth and a car that had collided with a parked vehicle nearby. They were advised that Ruth had been standing in front of a house when the car drove by and a passenger fired shots at him.
The car then crashed and the occupants emerged, entered another car and drove away.
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