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Press Release  Shots fired in Adams, man wounded

For immediate release:
1/24/2018
  • Berkshire District Attorney David F. Capeless

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Frederick A. Lantz

PITTSFIELD — Police are investigating a shooting in Adams that has left a man hospitalized. 

At 3:45 this afternoon, the Adams Police Department received a call of shots fired in the vicinity of North Summer Street.  When officers arrived on the scene they found a male suffering from gunshot wounds.

The male was transported to Berkshire Medical Center, in Pittsfield, where he underwent surgery and is expected to survive. 

Police are asking anyone who may have witnessed the shooting, or who may have information pertaining to the incident, to call the Adams Police Department at (413) 743-1212. 

The investigation is being conducted by members of the Adams and North Adams Police Departments, the Berkshire County Sheriff’s Office, state troopers assigned to the District Attorney’s Office, members of the Berkshire Law Enforcement Task Force and the Massachusetts State Police Crime Scene Services and Ballistics Sections and Chemists assigned to the Crime Lab. 

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