One In Custody, One Injured, In Hiawatha Altercation
06/26/2015

(KNZA)--One person is in custody, and another injured, following an incident Friday afternoon in a Hiawatha alley way. 

Hiawatha Police Chief John Defore says officers responded following the report of a possible aggravated battery in the alley behind the Dew Drop Inn, located at 508 Oregon Street. 

One man was taken into custody as a person of interest while another person was transported from the scene by ambulance. 

Additional details pertaining to the incident are not immediately made public. 

The report was made around 3:20, and initially stated that a gun had been brandished in the alley. However, Defore says no gun has been located, no shots were fired, and eyewitnesses at the scene say a gun was never spotted. 


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