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Delaware State Police Investigate Magnolia Shooting

DOVER, Del. (AP) - The Delaware State Police are investigating a shooting that wounded a man in a tiny town in Kent County.

Troopers were alerted of an early Thursday shooting incident by officials at Bayhealth Kent General Hospital. When they arrived at the hospital they found a 34-year-old Magnolia man with a non-life threatening gunshot to a lower extremity.

State police say they have no suspect information.  It wasn't immediately clear if the wounded man was cooperating with investigators.

The shooting apparently occurred in Magnolia, a Delaware town with just a couple hundred inhabitants. It's a roughly 15-minute drive south of Dover.

Troopers are asking anyone with information that could lead to an arrest to contact them.

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Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.