LIMA — Authorities are seeking the public’s help in their investigation into a Monday morning shooting in Lima that left two men injured.
According to a statement issued by the Lima Police Department, officers were dispatched shortly after 11:30 a.m. Monday to the area of State Street and Lincoln Avenue in reference to a report of shots fired.
A short time later police learned that two subjects suffering from gunshot wounds arrived in a private vehicle at Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical Center. Officers learned that Leroy Page, 32, of Lima, and Corderrell Lovette, 34, of Cincinnati, were sitting in a vehicle in the 300 block of Lincoln Avenue when they were shot. Both victims were treated for what are believed to be non-life threatening injuries.
Anyone with information about this shooting is asked to contact the Lima Police Department at 419-227-4444, Detective Jesse Harrod at 419-221-5296, or Crime Stoppers at 419-229-7867.
Detectives talked to neighbors to try and get a description of the shooter or their vehicle and the case remains under investigation.
