Placer detectives investigate after man with gunshot wound found along rural road

Detectives were investigating a shooting in a rural area of western Placer County where sheriff’s deputies found a man suffering from a gunshot wound Wednesday morning.

Deputies found the wounded man about 7:40 a.m. in the area of Pleasant Grove and Riego roads, just east of the Sutter County line.

The Placer County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call reporting a man with a gunshot wound. The man was taken by ambulance to a hospital, sheriff’s officials announced in a Facebook post. There were no further details about the man’s condition.

Shortly before 9 a.m. Wednesday, sheriff’s officials said detectives were at the scene “working to piece together what happened.”

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