Man shot on Sprigg Street early Sunday

A man Cape Girardeau police suspected to be responsible for a shooting early Sunday morning was released from custody before 7 a.m., according to officer Michael Kidd.

The shooting left one man injured and sent police on a chase after a car that seemed to match the description of the vehicle carrying the shooter.

Police received reports about gunshots near Sprigg and Themis streets at 2:38 a.m. Sunday, said Sgt. Adam Glueck with the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Shortly afterward, police received reports from an area hospital, which Glueck did not name, of a 22-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the arm. The wound was not life threatening, Glueck said.

Details were sketchy on the shooting, Glueck said. The man who was shot told Glueck he had been walking along the street. Police were unsure whether the shots were fired from a car or by a person who was standing outside the vehicle.

While the wounded man would not cooperate with officers, enough information was gathered from people in the area that a partial description of the vehicle carrying the shooter was put together, Glueck said.

Officers on patrol in the area of Cape Girardeau just north of Highway 74 saw a car they thought fit the description of the vehicle near Sprigg Street and Jefferson Avenue at 3:27 a.m. Glueck said. When officers attempted to stop the mid-90s white Chevrolet Lumina, the driver, alone in the car, refused to stop and led officers through the area.

"He basically went around in circles in a six- to seven-block area," Glueck said. The man drove into the dead-end area of Morgan Oak Street near the termination of the old Mississippi River

bridge, Glueck said.

No gun was found in the vehicle and no information was immediately available tying the driver, a man, to the shooting, Glueck said.

The names of the driver and the shooting victim were not released.

No other suspects are in custody, according to Kidd.

"It's a work in progress," he said around 3:15 p.m.

No other details were available Sunday.

Southeast Missourian writer Erin Hevern contributed to this report.

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Pertinent addresses:

700 Themis St., Cape Girardeau, MO

700 Jefferson Ave., Cape Girardeau, MO

400 S. Spanish St., Cape Girardeau, MO