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Buffalo Police investigating another fatal shooting

Massachusetts Ave & 18th Street, Buffalo, NY
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Massachusetts Ave & 18th Street, Buffalo, NY

A Tuesday afternoon, West Side-shooting, makes for Buffalo's eighth gun-related death over the last three weeks.

Police are looking for tips as they search for suspects in the double-shooting at 18th Street and Massachusetts Avenue.

A man in his twenties was pronounced dead at the scene while his female companion was taken to the hospital for treatment of a gun shot wound to the arm.

The Buffalo News reports 105 shooting incidents have occurred this year compared to the same date in 2011 when 60 such incidents had been reported.