Police in Morgantown search for shooting suspect, look for tips

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Police in Morgantown report eye-witnesses told them an assailant in a ski mask shot an adult male in the leg in downtown early Saturday morning.

Police were dispatched to the scene around 1:30 a.m. to the area of Chestnut and Fayette Streets where they found an adult male with a gunshot wound to the leg. The victim refused treatment at the scene and self-transported to a hospital in Pennsylvania.

Officers and detectives searched the area for the suspect and reviewed video surveillance from the area as well. The witnesses told police the suspect wearing a ski mask ran after the shooting on Chestnut Street toward Walnut Street.

No arrests have been made, and the investigation is active.

Information about the incident can be left confidentially by calling 304-284-7454.