Man dies in Springfield shooting

The victim of a shooting near Jake’s Market on Saturday evening has died, as police on Sunday night continued to search for the shooter.
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Man Dies in Springfield, Vt., Shooting By Rob Wolfe Valley News Staff Writer Monday, April 20, 2015 (Published in print: Monday, April 20, 2015) Springfield, Vt. — Police said Wesley Wing, 37, died at 2:30 a.m. Sunday after being shot near the South Street store. A 911 call came after Wing made his way there for help around 6 p.m. on Saturday, according to a Springfield Police Department news release. Wing was transported to Springfield Hospital and later airlifted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, where he died Sunday morning. Medical examiners in Concord are scheduled to perform an autopsy today. Police said Sunday night that their ongoing investigation had turned up a person of interest, and asked anyone with information about a black Nissan Infiniti with Vermont plates to call the Springfield Police Department at 802-885-2113. Wing was a carpenter who lived just down the road from the site of the shooting. He is survived by a wife and children . Members of his family were not immediately available for comment on Sunday. Friends and neighbors left messages of condolence on the police department’s Facebook page this weekend, and a pink plush rabbit with bouquets of flowers was sitting on the Wings’ doorstep on Sunday afternoon. Late Sunday afternoon, police and state troopers were still at the scene at the corner of South Street and Cheryl Lane, where they searched the area with a metal detector and dug holes in the ground. Karen Sinclair, who lives next to the site of the shooting, said she heard the shots but did not see it happen. “It was boom, boom, boom, boom, just like that,” she said. “All in a row.” The black Nissan that police are seeking was sitting on a side road about 15 feet from her window. “I heard the gunshots, jumped up out of my chair, and looked quickly out the window, and I saw a black, very shiny car that was backing up out into the road and sped off that way,” she said, gesturing south. Minutes later on Saturday, Allan Batchelder, who lives across from Jake’s Market, saw Wing run into the store while holding his stomach. Workers at the store declined to comment on Sunday. Batchelder and others in the neighborhood said they felt shaken by the incident, as well as by the influx of illegal drugs to their town. “My wife and I, when we leave, I lock the doors,” Batchelder said. “We don’t feel very safe.” “Doesn’t make me feel good at all,” Sinclair said. “Not at all. I thought I was going to be safe in a little town like this, but having something like that happen, right outside of my door, was very, very scary.” In June, a shooting on Summer Street stemming from a disagreement over heroin left a man with nonfatal injuries, and earlier this year, a group called Project ACTION began meeting to address drug and gang-related activity in Springfield. “As with similar communities plagued with drugs and violence, we are very concerned,” Selectboard Chairman Kristi Morris said in an email Sunday. “We will continue advocating for Project ACTION efforts, formed to identify and collaborate agency resources, with the goal to educate, treat and prevent and reduce the drug industry.” Immediately after the shooting, police instructed neighbors to stay in their homes, but later indicated it was safe to go outside. “The investigation indicates that this is an isolated incident and not a random shooting,” the release said. “The information that we have at this time confirms the public is safe.”