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Police probing possible tie between 2 gunshot incidents


Updated: June 11, 2012, 6:54 AM


Niagara Falls police Sunday were trying to determine who shot up a car outside a Highland Avenue bar and a home on Cleveland Avenue, and why.


No one was injured in the two incidents that occurred about four hours apart early Sunday, said Detective William Smith.


“We don’t know why it happened, but we believe [the two shootings] may be related,” Smith said.


According to police, someone shot and heavily damaged a car outside the 3M Bar in the 3000 block of Highland at about 3 a.m. Four hours later, someone fired at least six shots at a house in the 1000 block of Cleveland, a little over a mile from the bar.


A man who was inside the home on Cleveland—Willie Edward Mathews, 44, of Niagara Falls—was arrested on charges of criminal possession of a gun and possession of a stolen gun, police said. Mathews was not charged with either of the shootings.