ICYMI: Drive-By Shooting At St. Joseph's Hospital: Police

PHOENIX, AZ — A strange incident at Phoenix's St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center ended with one man shot and another arrested. According to AZ Central, a knife-wielding man tried to fight the soon-to-be shooting victim at the emergency room.

Around 2 p.m. Thursday, the victim, a 27-year-old man, was with a 26-year-old man inside the emergency room when another man, 19, tried to get the two to fight, AZ Central reported Phoenix police Sgt. Tommy Thompson as saying. They ignored him and he left.

Then, around 4:15 p.m., the two men left the emergency room only to see the belligerent 19-year-old outside. A fight broke out, AZ Central reported, and the 19-year-old pulled a knife out. The three were fighting when somebody in a burgundy car shot at them as it drove by on Third Avenue.

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The 27-year-old man was shot in the leg. It was not a life-threatening injury.

The 19-year-old ran away, but was caught by an off-duty cop working security at the hospital, Thompson said, according to AZ Central. Thompson said it would be too much of a coincidence for the shooting to be random, and that the arrestee likely knew the shooter.

Police believe there were two people inside the burgundy car, ABC15 reported.

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