NORFOLK — A Thursday evening shooting near the Calvert Square neighborhood proved fatal for a 56-year-old man.

Officers in the area were within earshot of multiple shots fired near the intersection of East Olney Road and Wide Street. A man, John L. Howard of Norfolk, was found near a residence’s address with a gunshot wound.

First responders took him to a hospital were he later died on account of his injuries, a Norfolk Police Department statement said.

No additional details, including the shooting’s motive or circumstances, have been released.

Another fatal shooting transpired in Norfolk on Wednesday morning, in the city’s Tanner’s Creek neighbor, around 5.5 miles from the site of Thursday’s shooting and less than a half mile from a middle school. It resulted in a death of a 26-year-

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