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(WWJ) Detroit police are investigating five shootings that happened in a four-hour window Thursday night.
In one incident, someone was shot when a friend was cleaning a gun that went off inside a home on Grandmont Street, near Joy and Southfield. That victim is hospitalized in stable condition.
In another incident, a 49-year-old man was driving his Dodge Challenger near McNichols and Wyoming when a gunman in a Dodge Durango opened fire, striking him several times. His condition is unknown.
Detroit heads into Labor Day in a pandemic and following a summer full of violence, including weekends with numerous shootings.
A month ago, Police Chief James Craig said Detroit had ten homicides, and 39 nonfatal shootings in the previous seven days.