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Police Searching for Suspect After Shot Fired Inside Apartment

SCRANTON — Police are looking for a man after a shot rang out inside an apartment in Scranton. It happened at a place on West Locust Street shortly before...

SCRANTON -- Police are looking for a man after a shot rang out inside an apartment in Scranton.

It happened at a place on West Locust Street shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday.

According to police, 18-year-old Jorge DeJesus and his girlfriend were arguing in the second-floor bedroom when the shot was fired. Officers said the bullet went through the floor and into the kitchen below, where DeJesus' one-year-old child and other people were at the time.

No one was injured.

DeJesus reportedly fled the scene before police arrived. He's charged with reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child, and firing a firearm into an occupied structure.

 

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