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County police investigate Courthouse-area shooting

Victim went to hospital with serious, but not life-threatening, injuries
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Arlington County Police Department cruiser.

Arlington police are investigating a Feb. 15 shooting in the Courthouse area of the county.

At approximately 1:57 a.m., officers were dispatched to the report of a shooting inside a parking garage in the 1300 block of North Courthouse Road, a block from the county police headquarters.

Responding officers located an adult male suffering from a gunshot wound and rendered aid, county police said. The victim was transported to an area hospital with injuries considered serious but non-life-threatening.

“The events that preceded the shooting remain under investigation, and the preliminary investigation has not revealed an ongoing threat to the community,” police said in a Feb 16. advisory.