LBPD Public Information Officer Jennifer De Prez says (preliminary information) that at about 8:15 p.m. on Jan. 5, officers responded to the area of E. 21st day and Locust Ave. regarding a reported shooting victim and found a woman (adult) with gunshot wounds.

LBFD transported her to a hospital with non-life-threatening wounds.

LBPD's preliminary investigation indicates the victim was in an alley behind a residence in the 2100 block of Locust when a group of men (adults) confronted her and shot at her. LBPD found casings at the scene; a motive for the shooting isn't immediately known.

The maps below show cumulated fatal, non-fatal and no-person hit shootings cumulated from Jan. 1, 2018 to date.

Jan 1, 2018 to date: Red Xs=homicides; Blue Xs= shootings, person wounded; Brown Xs=shots fired at victim(s), not hit; Purple Xs=shots at occupied residence/vehicle; Green Xs= shots at unoccupied vehicle/residence; Grey Xs=shots fired (no hit, no target identified); Orange X's=non-fatal stabbings; Blue * asterisk=victim hit, police unable to locate crime scene. Map is unofficial.

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For context, the second map shows shootings cumulated from Jan. 1, 2014 through Dec. 31, 2017.

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