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East Palo Alto Man Claims He Was Shot; Neighbors Doubtful

The city's Shotspotter system did not detect a shot being fired in the neighborhood.

By Bay City News   

A man claimed he was grazed by a gunshot in East Palo Alto early Monday, but his neighbors told police they didn’t hear anything. In addition, investigating officers haven’t found evidence of a shooting, police said today.

East Palo Alto police were dispatched to a hospital in Redwood City shortly before 2 a.m. after the 34-year-old man reported being hit by a bullet, police said.     

The man said he was shot two hours earlier in the 700 block of Weeks Street and showed officers a grazing wound in his groin area, police said.

Officers went to the neighborhood and say none of the neighbors reported hearing shots. The Police Department's Shotspotter system, a series of microphones used to locate gunshot sites on city streets, did not to detect a shot being fired there.   

East Palo Alto police are investigating the incident and are asking anyone with information about it to call the dispatch center at (650)321-1112 or send an anonymous text or voice mail to (650) 409-6792.

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