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Marcos Antonio Sorto-Argueta, 19, has been identified and arrested for his role in a non-fatal shooting of someone he knew who was hospitalized on Sunday, June 18, according to officials.
Officers from the Leesburg Police Department were called shortly before 4 a.m. on Sunday morning to reports of shots fired in the unit block of Hancock Place NE, where they found a man in his 20s suffering from a gunshot wound and lacerations to his upper body.
He was rushed by paramedics to an area hospital for what were described by police as “serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.”
The victim has not been identified, though investigators confirmed that he and Sorto-Argueta knew each other and the shooting was likely targeted.
Sorto-Argueta was charged with felony aggravated malicious wounding. He was waiting on a bond hearing as of Tuesday, June 20, according to police officials.
Additional charges against Sorto-Argueta are pending.
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