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Few new details in Thursday's gunfire

Cops at the scene of the shooting Thursday night.

Police today issued a brief news release with few details about the shooting late Thursday night on North Sixth Avenue. They declined further comment.

“I don't want to jeopardize the integrity of the case,” Butler police Deputy Chief David Adam said this morning when asked about why police would not comment on the investigation.

The police did say that investigators believe the shooting involved an exchanged of gunfire between two men. No one was injured. Butler police also said that a car linked to the shooting has been impounded in Pittsburgh.

Neighbors reported hearing several shots, four or five, fired in the 300 block of North Sixth Avenue about 10:30 p.m.. They also heard a woman's screams.

Some of the neighbors looked outside and saw two or three women, one with a baby stroller, and an unknown man.

Others also saw a different unknown man get into a white car. The car backed up onto West Penn Street and fled.

That car was later tracked to Pittsburgh, where it was impounded, according to the news release.

Adam would not say who owns the vehicle or who they believe was driving it Thursday night. It also was unknown if police have obtained a search warrant for the car.

Witnesses told police that “two males” exchanged gunfire that night, the news release said. But police did not say if those witnesses were the women that neighbors saw moments after the shooting.

Officers recovered “multiple shell casings at the scene,” the news release said. Adam would not discuss the caliber of the casings nor would he say if they were different, which would indicate two guns were fired that night.

When asked if arrests were imminent, Adam only said, “The case is under investigation.”

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