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5 Shot in Connecticut Pizza Parlor

    Created: 6/6/2009 4:16:08 PM    Updated: 6/6/2009 4:17:06 PM
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Police say five people were shot in a Connecticut pizza shop, and one of the victims is hospitalized in serious condition with a gunshot wound to the back.

Police spokesman Jose Rivera says the people were shot inside Papa

s Pizza at Union Place early Saturday. Police didn't immediately identify the victims. In addition to the person with the back wound, police say the four others don't have life-threatening injuries.

Rivera says 21-year-old Byron Taylor of Hartford, Conn., was arrested and charged with several weapons violations.

Also in Hartford, another man was shot and wounded following a fight inside a nightclub. Investigators found shell casings and blood on the dance floor. The victim was not identified. Police say he had a non-life threatening wound to the abdomen.

No arrest has been made.

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