Police were called to 40 Stagecoach Road around 10 p.m. where they met a man sitting on the ground with a gunshot wound, Stoughton police said. The man was not a Stoughton resident.
Paramedics took him to Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police say there is no ongoing threat to the community.
Detectives ask anyone with information on the shooting to contact investigators at 781-344-2424.
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