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Toledo police investigating 2 shootings that took place over the weekend

One of the incidents happened Saturday night on Angola Street near Acton Drive in south Toledo, and the other on White Street in the east side early Sunday morning.

TOLEDO, Ohio — Police responded to two incidents over the weekend in which an unknown suspect shot the victim. 

One of those incidents took place Saturday night on Angola Street near Acton Drive around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. 

Police say Joseph Phelps called 911 saying he and Joseph Gilchrist had been shot.

They told the police the shooting happened when they were on their way home from returning a phone they had found.

Phelps and Gilchrist were both taken to the hospital with unknown injuries.

The other incident happened around 3:30 a.m. Sunday on the 300 block of White Street in east Toledo. 

Police say 44-year-old Venkateswarlu Ega was walking up his driveway when he was approached by two unknown males.

Ega told police one of them men brandished a handgun and demanded his money.

After taking money from Ega, police say one of the suspects fired a single shot, which grazed Ega's head.

The suspects then fled on foot.

Ega was taken to the hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

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