Akron police are investigating a midnight shooting that left a man injured at Akron’s Springhill Apartments on Everton Drive.
Occupants of an apartment told police they answered the door after hearing a knock, and three men barged inside. One occupant, a 37-year-old man, was shot in the buttocks. Another man, age 26, said he was pistol-whipped. A third occupant, a 24-year-old woman who lives there, was not injured.
The older man was transported to Cleveland Clinic Akron General Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening. The younger man sustained minor injuries and was transported to Summa Akron City Hospital.
The shooter was described as a thin black man, standing at 5-foot-10, wearing a black ski mask, black and gray hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.
Police are investigating.