Vancouver Police Department detectives say it appears that two men injured in a Wednesday night shooting in the Ellsworth Springs neighborhood fired their weapons at each other.
Officers and ambulances were dispatched around 9:15 p.m. Wednesday to the 10400 block of Southeast 10th Street on a report of a disturbance with weapons. They found two people with gunshot wounds. One victim had a critical injury, while the second person’s injury was not life-threatening, police said.
Both were taken to local hospitals, police said.
Police continue to investigate the shooting but reported Thursday that the incident apparently started as a dispute between the two men.
“(B)oth males were armed with a gun and fired their weapons at each other at some point, resulting in both parties being shot,” the police department said in a press release.