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Albany police are looking for a man who burst into an Albany apartment and wounded a teenager
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Albany police are looking for a man who burst into an Albany apartment and wounded a teenager

ALBANY -- Albany police are looking for a man who burst into an Albany apartment and wounded a teenager.

Investigators say several people were inside a unit at Nottingham North Apartments playing cards Sunday night when the man broke down the door and started shooting.

19-year-old Vashawn Mannings was hit in the leg. He was taken to Phoebe Putney.

The gunman ran away. Witnesses say the shooter is a black man and had on black clothing.

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