WINONA, Minn. – Police began a second day of assessing evidence and conducting interviews in a shooting that unsettled an East Side neighborhood Thursday morning. At a Friday briefing to update news reporters, Police Sergeant Doug Inglett confirmed there was a victim but that the victim wasn’t wounded. Because the investigation was still fluid, Inglett declined to identify the victim — not even by age or gender or the relationship to the shooter or whether the victim was in the apartment where Jonathan Payton was arrested as the suspected shooter. “Were the two shots aimed the victim?” Inglett said such details were yet to be determined. A motive for the shooting also was yet to be established, he said. The Police Department mobilized its entire Day Platoon to the scene — five patrol officers and two sergeants. Mobilized also were five investigators who happened to be in their offices. A deputy sheriff was also on scene to assist. An evidence technician was at the scene too. Among evidence gathered, Inglett confirmed, were two two .40 mm shell casings on the ground on Third Street, a couple blocks from the apartment where Payton was arrested. The arrest itself was in a large house that had been converted into apartment units. At least one other person was in the building, Inglett said. A black Taurus handgun with a .40 caliber round in the chamber was found in the apartment, but it wasn’t yet clear whether it was the weapon fired in the street, Inglett said. It’s still “a very active investigation,” he said.
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