Crime & Safety
Malden Police Searching For Suspect After Another Shooting
The Arch Street shooting victim is expected to survive. Police are looking for the suspect, who crashed in Medford while fleeing.
MALDEN, MA — Authorities are searching for a suspect in the city's second shooting in as many days.
Around 9 p.m. Thursday police responded to Arch Street for a reported shooting. Officers found a victim in the street and took him to the hospital, where he is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said the shooting was not random and that the suspect and victim know each other. The two were in an argument and family members intervened.
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"The argument intensified, resulting in the shooting," police said in a statement.
The suspect left in a vehicle, crashing in Medford and fleeing on foot.
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Malden is still reeling from Tuesday's fatal shooting in which 30-year-old Brian Butler shot 30-year-old Erin Fitzgibbon inside a Fairmont Stree home during a robbery, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan. Butler was arrested Tuesday night.
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