An El Dorado woman was transported to Medical Center of South Arkansas Monday with a foot injury that she said she received after hearing gunfire.
At approximately 11:30 p.m., El Dorado police responded to Medical Center of South Arkansas to a report of a female with a gunshot wound.
Twenty-year-old Shyla Hall told officers that she was walking to her mailbox at Hillsboro Townhouse Apartments, 1600 Short E. Hillsboro, when she heard two gun shots.
Hall said she “immediately fell to the ground in pain” and noticed that her left foot was bleeding. She said she then called a relative, who dropped her off at MCSA.
Hall noted that she was alone when the incident occurred.
Police said there was a dime-sized hole in Hall’s left heel. A police report did not indicate that the injury was life-threatening.
Police are investigating the matter.
Capt. Kevin Holt, public information officer with the El Dorado Police Department, said police did not receive any other reports of shots fired in the area Monday.
” If that was a stray shot, it’s going to be some big rounds. We’re going to have to look at that one, especially since there was no crime scene until the report was initiated at the hospital,” Holt said.
A Hillsboro Townhouse employee told police that she was inside the front office, approximately 50 feet from where Hall said she heard gunshots, but had not seen or heard anything suspicious.
Another employee reported seeing “a group of youngsters” carrying a woman to a car near another apartment building, but “did not think anything of it at the time.”
Tia Lyons may be contacted at 870-862-6611 or by email at tlyons@ eldoradonews.com.