Man Shot, Woman Beaten On Lowell Street

LOWELL (CBS) – A man was shot and a woman was beaten in an early morning attack in Lowell Wednesday.

Police said the pair were from out of town and came to Read Street around 4:30 a.m. to meet another man and woman for a drug deal.

"The female victim became involved in some type of altercation with the two who then began to beat her about the head. The male victim seeing this ran to assist the female at which point the Hispanic male produced a shotgun and fired at the male striking him," police said in a statement.

The wounded man ran a block away to a convenience store on Bridge Street looking for help after the shooting.  Police sealed off both areas, but the suspects were gone.

The man and woman were taken to Lowell General Hospital with "non-life threatening" injuries, according to authorities.

Police had earlier told WBZ-TV that two people had been shot.  They clarified that later saying the woman's head wounds were "initially thought to have been inflicted by a gunshot."

No names have been made public

The man is 27 years old, the woman 30.

No other information is available at this point in the investigation.

WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Ben Parker reports

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