Early morning shooting on North Lexington Avenue injures at least six

At least six people were injured in an early-morning shooting on the 100 block of North Lexington Avenue in downtown Asheville, and the Asheville Police Department is investigating, according to a scanner-based early report. Scanner information indicated four patients were transported by EMS and two were taken by private vehicle.

The original breaking text stated that “multiple people suffered gunshot wounds” and that scanner reports “indicate at least six patients involved, with four transported by EMS and two by private vehicle.” The same early report ends abruptly with the fragment “No arrests ha,” leaving the arrest status unclear in the material provided.

City officials had not released a formal Asheville Police Department press release for the North Lexington Avenue incident in the material supplied, and the scanner counts should be treated as preliminary. The early text did not identify hospital destinations, ages or sexes of the injured, whether all six patients sustained gunshot wounds, whether detectives or forensics technicians processed the scene, or whether any weapons or suspects were identified.

The March 8 downtown shooting follows a separate incident reported by APD and carried by WLOS from late January. According to a Jan. 30 news release from the Asheville Police Department, officers responded to Malcolm Court after a 11:37 p.m. Jan. 29 report of a gunshot-wound victim. When officers arrived, they found a victim suffering from gunshot wounds to the neck and arm, rendered aid until Buncombe County EMS arrived, and the victim was transported to Mission Hospital with serious injuries.

APD detectives and forensics technicians processed the Malcolm Court scene, and the department’s preliminary findings said the shooting followed a verbal dispute that escalated to both individuals drawing pistols, with “one individual fired multiple shots, striking the other.” Investigators also found gunfire damage on an exterior wall, a window and a vehicle at a nearby residence in that incident.

Neither the early scanner report for North Lexington Avenue nor the Jan. 29 APD release supplied by WLOS included confirmed arrest information in the provided material. Investigators in both matters are continuing work at the scenes described, and APD has been identified as the lead agency in both investigations.