CARBONDALE — Carbondale Police are investigating a couple of shootings that may or may not be related while at the same time arresting a man in a separate investigation for a firearm offense Monday.

Police responded to Memorial Hospital of Carbondale at about 6:10 p.m. after getting word about a victim suffering from a non-life threatening gunshot wound while in the 400 block of East Chestnut Street. The victim is not being identified at this time.

During this same time, officers were conducting a separate investigation of a person with a firearm at the Fields Apartments, located at 700 South Lewis Lane. During the course of this investigation, officers arrested 29-year-old Phillip D. Howard of Murphysboro for unlawful possession of firearm ammunition by a felon. Howard was incarcerated. During the course of this investigation, officers recovered two firearms.

At 8:15 p.m. another victim was dropped off at the hospital with a non-life threatening gunshot wound which also occurred in the 400 block of East Ashley Street, which is adjacent to East Chestnut Street. The victim is not being identified at this time and there is not any suspect information to provide at this point.

Although there is not information available at this time to connect the incidents, there is also not information available to rule out that they are related.