WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Three people have been charged after a shooting in Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday.
Police say the shooting happened just before 4 p.m. along North Main Street.
Police say Donte Chalmers, 18, of Edwardsville; Elijah Crawford, 20, of Wilkes-Barre; and Tyvon Redd-Sykes, 18, of Wilkes-Barre, fired shots from a vehicle in the area of North Main Street.
One person was hit. The victim was charged for another gunfire incident in the city in October.
Newswatch 16 found state and city police officers at a house on Beaumont Street Tuesday night, just a few blocks up from where another shooting took place earlier the same afternoon.
The Wilkes-Barre police chief says the activity is related to the shooting Tuesday afternoon. Investigators were seen going in and out of the house, and a maroon Nissan sedan was also towed away.
As for the shooting earlier, police say the victim was walking with another man in the neighborhood around North Main and Madison Streets when a group of young men pulled up in a car and began firing at them.
Officers say the victim was also armed and he fired back, but he was the only one to be hit with gunfire.
After he was shot, the victim stumbled from North Main onto Madison Street. Police arrived there and the victim was then taken to the hospital.
Authorities determined the man who was shot was also wanted in connection with a previous shooting. He will be arraigned once he is discharged from the hospital.
Police say this violence was part of a larger, ongoing dispute between two groups of young men.
They say the violence is not limited to the city of Wilkes-Barre but has spilled over into other communities as well.
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