A shooting in Brighton Wednesday night sent a 19-year-old to the hospital.

Brighton police were dispatched at 9:09 p.m. to the 4000 block of Seventh Avenue.

When they arrived, they found a vehicle that had crashed into a mailbox. Police Lt. Kenneth Hooten said no one was inside the vehicle.

Witnesses told officers four Black males had jumped out of the vehicle. One of them ran down the street where he collapsed.

When Hooten got to him, he found the young man had been shot in the leg.

Hooten, who is also the city’s assistant fire chief, used the victim’s belt as a tourniquet to slow the bleeding. He also dressed the wound until paramedics arrived.

The victim was taken to UAB Hospital with injuries not believed to be life-threatening.

That shooting happened shortly after another incident of gunfire in Brighton.

At 8:48 p.m., shots were fired into a home on Council Avenue. Officers were investigating that incident when they received word of the Seventh Avenue shooting.

Hooten said the two shootings are possibly connected and could also be linked to a previous shooting on Smith Street.

Anyone with information is asked to call Brighton police at 205-425-8934, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office at 205-325-1450 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.