Police in Linden are investigating an early morning shooting that left a man suffering from a gunshot would to the abdomen.
Officers on patrol on East Linden Avenue heard gunshots coming from the vicinity of Cheeque’s Lounge, located at 1230 E. Linden Avenue, at approximately 2:47 a.m.
Upon arrival, officers found a 24-year-old Middlesex County man standing in the parking lot across from the bar bleeding from a wound to the abdomen.
The male victim told the officers that he had been shot.
He was treated at the scene by paramedics from Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway before he was transported to University Hospital in Newark by the Fire Department ambulance.
According to police, the victim is presently listed in stable condition.
Detectives responded to the scene and recovered several shell casings.
The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Linden Police Department at (908)474-8558.