Fort Wayne, IN – A 21-year-old man has been arrested following an early-morning shooting that left another man critically injured on the city’s south side, according to the Fort Wayne Police Department.
Police said officers were called around 3:11 a.m. Saturday, October 4, to the area of Oxford Street and South Hanna Street, where they found a 21-year-old male lying unconscious on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound. Emergency responders provided life-saving measures, and the victim was taken to a local trauma hospital in life-threatening condition.
According to a media release, FWPD Homicide Detectives launched an investigation and quickly identified Markevius Click, 21, as a suspect. Around 8:10 a.m., the FWPD Homicide Task Force located Click in the 3000 block of Warsaw Street and took him into custody without incident.
Click was booked into the Allen County Jail and faces preliminary charges of Attempted Murder with a Firearm Enhancement and Aggravated Battery, police said.
Authorities have not released the victim’s name, and the investigation remains ongoing.
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