Police investigate shooting in city
SCRANTON - City police are investigating a shooting that sent one man to the hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg Monday night.
Dupree Waldron, 22, got out of a gold car carrying other passengers when it stopped in the 100 block of Poplar Street, Lt. Marty Crofton said.
Mr. Waldron told police he started running from the area when he saw two people come out of the woods just before 5:15 p.m. One, carrying a handgun, allegedly shot him in the leg, Lt. Crofton said.
Mr. Waldron said the man fled in the gold car.
Mr. Waldron was taken to Geisinger Community Medical Center, where he was treated for his gunshot wound and released, Lt. Crofton said.