Wounded by a gunshot to the shoulder, a Montpellier man is dropped off at the emergency room of Lapeyronie hospital by a third person

La victime a été déposée aux urgences par un individu. Midi Libre – Illustration RICHARD DE HULLESSEN

The events occurred around 1 a.m., on the night of Saturday 13th to Sunday 14th April.

A 26-year-old Montpellier man was injured with a firearm on the night of Saturday 13 to Sunday 14 April, around 1 ;nbsp;morning time. It could be a settling of scores against a backdrop of drug trafficking. Information to be taken conditionally, no communication having, for the moment, been made official.

According to our information, the victim was dropped off by an individual who arrived at high speed by car at the emergency room of the Lapeyronie hospital center, before leaving the scene as quickly as he had arrived.

The bullet entered through the shoulder and exited at the side

Taken care of by emergency doctors, the twenty-year-old had a gunshot wound with an entry in the shoulder and an exit in the side. No vital organs were affected. According to a source close to the investigation, it was not an injury considered serious.

Notified by the hospital of his arrival, the national police officers were dispatched to the site where they carried out a brief interrogation. But we must recognize that the individual remained vague and uncooperative, simply speaking of a dispute with two people who shot him in the back.

Five detonations

After being treated, he left the hospital around 3 a.m. The investigation established that shortly before he was taken into charge, five detonations were heard by residents of the Cévennes district in Montpellier. Can we connect these two facts? It is too early to say, but we have the right to think so.