Police look into shooting of man in South Toledo

5/25/2012
BLADE STAFF

Toledo police on Thursday continued their probe into a shooting incident that occurred in South Toledo earlier that day.

Tommie Evans III, 24, of Steeplechase Circle drove to the University of Toledo Medical Center, the former Medical College of Ohio Hospital, where he was admitted with a gunshot wound to the leg, police said.

About 3:43 a.m., a police officer saw a vehicle driving erratically on Byrne Road near South Avenue. The vehicle stopped at UTMC, where the driver fled, officers said.

The victim claimed he was shot at a club at Jesse James Plaza in the 500 block of South Reynolds Road. Police went to the plaza to investigate but did not find a crime scene.