WATERLOO - One of the three people wounded in a Monday night shooting was shot less than two months earlier a block away,
Trevell McCoy, 25, took a bullet to the leg May 7 when a fist fight between two others in the street erupted in gunfire. The incident happened near the intersection of West Second and Allen streets.
No arrests have been made in the case.
Then Monday night, McCoy was shot in the leg in the area of West Third and Allen streets.
He is listed in stable condition at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.
Also injured in the shooting was 16-year-old Edward Degraffinreed, who is in guarded condition at Covenant Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the torso.
Degraffinreed, a West High School student, recently moved to the area and lives in the duplex next to the lot where he was found, said his brother, Billy Degraffinreed.
The third victim, 17-year-old Damarrius Darrell Todd of Waterloo, is also at the Iowa City hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm. He is in stable condition.
No arrests have been made in the case.
Neighbors said frequent fights have plagued the area.
In a separate incident, a Waterloo woman was taken to the hospital Sunday after shots were fired near her home.
Few details were available about the incident, which happened at about 10;30 p.m. outside 2746 E, Fourth St.
Kasey Staley, 21, was taken to Allen Hospital for injuries that appeared to be from a bullet fragment, said Waterloo Police Capt. John Beckman.
He said the injury wasn't serious.
Posted in Local on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:00 am Updated: 6:19 pm.
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