Eugene Police said they shot and injured a man Wednesday who they say was threatening people with a shotgun.

Police said around 12:30 p.m., they received reports of someone in the 1400 block of Railroad Boulevard who was menacing people.

"The report was of a male individual who had a shotgun, walking down the street, wielding the shotgun, walking in and out of traffic, trying to stop traffic, pointing the shotgun at individuals," Eugene Police Chief Chris Skinner told reporters at a press conference Wedensday afternoon.

Skinner said police received as many as seven or eight different calls from community members. He said officers tracked the suspect eastward, and tried to convince him to drop the weapon, but were unsuccessful.

He said near the intersection of 2nd Avenue and Madison Str

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