Police are investigating yet another shooting in the city’s North End that left a man with what police suspect was a grazing gunshot wound to the head on Monday afternoon. A gunman is suspected of opening fire near the corner of North Walnut Street and Division Street at about 3:15 p.m. Jonathan Shugarts Republican-American

WATERBURY – Police are investigating yet another shooting in the city’s North End that left a man with what police suspect was a grazing gunshot wound to the head on Monday afternoon.

A gunman is suspected of opening fire near the corner of North Walnut Street and Division Street at about 3:15 p.m. A resident in the area said five or six shots were heard.

A wounded man made his way into the emergency room of Saint Mary’s Hospital with the gunshot wound to the head, but, as of mid afternoon, the man was expected to survive the injury.

Police and a forensic technician were working to collect evidence at the street corner as they investigated the shooting, which marks at least the third in three days within the city.

The shooting took place within sight of a child care center, the playground of which was near the street corner.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call police at 203-574-6941 or the confidential Crime Stoppers tip line at 203-755-1234, which offers cash for information that leads to an arrest.