Two San Juan men who live next door to each oth­er sus­tained non-life-threat­en­ing in­juries dur­ing a shoot­ing on Thurs­day night.

The vic­tims, both aged 25, of Bushe Street, San Juan, were shot in the left hand and both legs, re­spec­tive­ly.

Re­ports in­di­cate the first vic­tim had been walk­ing up the stair­case to his apart­ment around 9.45 pm on Au­gust 8 when loud ex­plo­sions were heard and he saw two men shoot­ing at him.

He was shot in the left hand as he ran for cov­er.

Mean­while, the sec­ond vic­tim had been walk­ing along the street when he heard the gun­shots and turned to run.

How­ev­er, he was pur­sued by the gun­men af­ter jump­ing in­to a drain to es­cape and was shot mul­ti­ple times in both legs be­fore the shoot­ers ran off.

The sec­ond vic­tim man­aged to make his way home and was as­sist­ed by of­fi­cers of the North East Di­vi­sion Task Force, who took him to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ence Com­plex, Mt Hope.

The oth­er vic­tim was tak­en to the same hos­pi­tal by of­fi­cers of the San Juan Po­lice Sta­tion.

Both men were list­ed in sta­ble con­di­tion up to yes­ter­day. —AN­NA-LISA PAUL