ACTON MAN, 30, WOUNDED IN GUNBATTLE AT HIS HOME.Byline: Daily News ACTON Acton, town (1990 pop. 17,872), Middlesex co., E Mass., NW of Boston; settled c.1680, inc. 1735. Among its manufactures are electrical machinery, chemicals, prefabricated houses, and precision equipment. - A 30-year-old Acton man was shot at his home in a gunbattle with two suspected street gang members, deputies said. The victim, whose name was not released, suffered a single gunshot wound, deputies said. The man was flown by helicopter to an undisclosed hospital and was reported to be in stable condition, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. deputies. Officials say two men believed to be street gang members went to the man's home in the 6200 block of Shannon Shannon, principal river of the Republic of Ireland and longest (c.240 mi/390 km) in the British Isles. It rises near Cuilcagh Mt., NW Co. Cavan, and flows S through the Central Plain into Co. Limerick, where it turns west in a broad estuary (c. Valley Road in Acton about 1 a.m. Thursday Thursday: see week. . One man was armed with a small-caliber rifle and fired at least once, striking the victim in the upper body, deputies said. The victim was also armed and fired at the two men but officials are not sure whether either was hit. The gunman was described as an African-American man, 35 years old, wearing a dark blue sweat shirt. He stands about 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs about 200 pounds. The second man was described only as a 29-year-old white man. Anyone with information is asked to call the Palmdale Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. sheriff's station at (661) 267-4300. |
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