Springfield police are investigating the city’s second fatal shooting in less than 24 hours. Officers responding to 911 calls found Juan Rodriguez Jr., 33, on the ground outside a residence on Avon Place just before 5 p.m. Wednesday suffering from several gunshot wounds. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Witnesses said they heard a disturbance in the area before the shooting. There had been no arrests by Thursday morning. The shooting occurred hours after Darrell Jenkins, 23, was fatally shot in the city’s Forest Park neighborhood just after midnight Wednesday. There have been no arrests in that case either.
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