Man Shot in Parking Lot in City of Groton

A man is recovering after getting shot in a parking lot in the city of Groton on Sunday morning.

Officers from the City of Groton Police were called to Bridge Street in the early morning hours after getting a report of a gunshot victim.

When police arrived, they said they learned that a man was shot in the parking lot and that everyone else had left the scene before officers had gotten there.

According to police, the man was found at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital with a single non-life threatening gunshot wound to the back of his body. He underwent surgery and is expected to make a full recovery, investigators added.