HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (WKRN) -- A woman was taken into custody after a man was shot in the neck last week in Hopkinsville, officials said.

According to the Hopkinsville Police Department's Facebook post from Friday, May 30, a call came in just before 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 21 about shots fired near E 2nd Street and Liberty Street.

Officers and detectives responded to the scene and quickly found the victim, who was flown to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the neck, law enforcement said.

Authorities said they interviewed the victim, who identified the person who shot him as 21-year-old Shadymon Buckner. The victim had reportedly gotten into an argument with Buckner before the shooting.

While officers and detectives were trying to track down Buckner, she turned herself in to the police department, according to officials. Investigators executed a search warrant in the 1000 block of Howell Street and found the gun that Buckner had allegedly tossed after the shooting.

Police said Buckner was arrested for first-degree assault. No additional details have been released about this case.

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