Salt Lake police are asking for the public's help in their investigation of a Friday night shooting.

About 7 p.m., behind a laundry facility at 1200 W. 340 South, a man was shot three times, twice in the chest and once in the leg, said police Lt. Dave Askerlund. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.

Witnesses reported seeing a man driving away from the scene in a red Chevrolet Beretta. Other witnesses say they saw a man running who then threw something. Askerlund said officers located a 9mm handgun in the area one block from the shooting.

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Anyone with information is asked to call police.

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