CHARLESTON — City police arrested a suspect in an early morning shooting near the intersection of King and Line streets that left both him and another person with gunshot wounds.

According to a news release from the Charleston Police Department, officers heard gunshots near the high traffic intersection just after 1 a.m. on Aug. 21. They found a man lying in the roadway with a gunshot wound to his abdomen.

Later on, police learned that another man was taken to a local hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, the release said. Investigators determined the men knew each other and got into an argument that escalated to shots being fired.

Detectives determined 22-year-old Daquen Tyell Brown to be the suspect in the exchange after learning that Brown had brandished a handgun with an automati

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