Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies were investigating a shooting Tuesday evening in North Highlands, where a man was seriously wounded after he was shot in the back.

The shooting was reported shortly after 6 p.m. in the 6000 block of Kemp Way in a residential neighborhood a few blocks east of Watt Avenue.

The man suffered multiple gunshot wounds that were considered life-threatening, said Sgt. Amar Gandhi, a spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office.

Gandhi said the wounded man was conscious and breathing when he was taken by ambulance to a hospital. He said there was no suspect information available, and detectives had been called to the shooting scene to take over the investigation.

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