CINCINNATI (WXIX) - A woman is expected to recover after she was shot in the back in a Cincinnati homeless encampment Wednesday night, police tell FOX19 NOW.

It happened near Downtown at 8:15 p.m., in the 600 block of West Fifth Street, just off Sixth and Linn streets in Queensgate.

The victim, a woman who is 30 to 40 years old, was transported to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, according to Captain Stephen Bower.

Initial emergency communication reports indicate a man fled in a black vehicle, but he said this does not appear to be a drive-by shooting.

Further details, including what may have led up to it and if the woman was living in the encampment, were not immediately available early Thursday.

This comes amid an increase in vio

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