San Diego police are looking for a man who they said used a shotgun to shoot a man in the leg who was involved in an argument in a Serra Mesa backyard early Thursday.<\/p>\n
The shooting was reported shortly after 3:05 a.m. at a home on Afton Road.<\/p>\n
Police said the victim was in a verbal altercation with another man behind the rear of the home when a third man \u201carmed himself with a shotgun\u201d and fired one round. The blast hit the victim in the left shin, breaking two bones in the victim\u2019s leg, police said.<\/p>\n
Officers found the injured man in the backyard and provided first aid until paramedics arrived and transported him to a hospital to be treated.<\/p>\n
The shooter, believed to be an acquaintance of the victim, took off before police arrived. The man, who was wearing a black trench coat and had long black hair, was described as Native American, in his 30s, about 5 feet 6 inches tall, with a heavy build.<\/p>\n
The shotgun was recovered. Police searched the area, but the suspect was not immediately located. Detectives are investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego police are looking for a man who they said used a shotgun to shoot a man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,181,23,100,74,84,76,75,67080],"class_list":["post-238079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-serra-mesa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}