A 23-year-old Greeneville man was seriously injured in a shooting Tuesday afternoon at a West Summer Street apartment complex.

Kenyetta Fields, Jr., 23, of Railroad Street, was identified as the victim by Capt. Terry Webb, the Greeneville Police Department's chief detective.

Webb said Fields had been shot in the face about 3:35 p.m. Tuesday inside an apartment at the Hidden Oaks apartment complex on West Summer Street.

Fields was initially treated at Laughlin Memorial Hospital before being flown to the Johnson City Medical Center (JCMC).

Fields was being treated in the JCMC's intensive care unit, according to Webb.

A JCMC nursing supervisor this morning said she had no information on Fields or of his condition.

Capt. Webb said police had interviewed "a bunch of people" in connection with the case Tuesday afternoon and night, and planned to conduct more interviews today.

No charges have been placed pending the conclusion of the police investigation, Capt. Webb said.

Greeneville Police took two people into custody Tuesday afternoon near the Hidden Oaks apartment complex on West Summer Street soon after the shooting.

However, Capt. Webb said this morning both of them had been questioned and released.

"We're continuing to investigate," Webb said this morning.

According to a press release issued by the GPD on Tuesday night, emergency personnel were notified at 3:26 p.m. Tuesday that an individual had been shot at apartment C24 in the subsidized housing complex.

This morning, Capt. Webb said Fields, the shooting victim, did not reside in the apartment where the shooting is believed to have taken place, but was known by the resident of the apartment.

"The victim had received what is reported to be a single gunshot wound to the face," the police press release said.

Capt. Webb said police had not located the firearm believed to have been used in the shooting.

EMS personnel said the bullet apparently entered from under the victim's chin, and lodged in the man's tongue.

Bystanders at the apartment complex Tuesday afternoon said the victim was able to make his way from the back side of the apartment complex, holding his hand to his mouth, and bleeding profusely.

Blood was still visible on a stair rail and steps.

Police at the scene said the victim was trying to talk to them, and that he claimed to have shot himself.

However, others at the scene told police that the victim had been shot by someone else.

This morning, Capt. Webb said Fields had "recanted" an initial statement that he had shot himself.

But Webb said police had been unable to fully interview Fields because of his injuries.

While police were interviewing witnesses at about 3:50 p.m. Tuesday, someone apparently notified authorities that a car that matched the description of a vehicle used by the alleged shooter was leaving the complex.

GPD Officer Cameron Spradlin entered his own vehicle, an SUV designated as a K-9 unit, and rapidly left the complex. He was followed by Patrol Lt. Tim Hartman in another vehicle.

A short time later, police stopped a metallic Dodge Intrepid with Blount County tags on Summer Street, outside the complex but within sight of it, and close to the intersection with the 70 Truck Route.

Officers, several of them wielding shotguns, covered the Dodge until a man exited from the front passenger door, first holding his hands in the air.

At the officers' direction, the man backed toward them, with his hands in the air.

After officers had handcuffed the man and put him into a police vehicle, another passenger, a woman, left the Dodge.

She also backed toward the officers until she could be handcuffed.

This morning, Capt. Webb said the two people taken into custody on Tuesday afternoon had been questioned and released.

Connie Keesey, the manager of the apartment complex, was at the scene of the shooting, observing the arrest from a short distance, along with reporters.

Keesey said that the two people arrested were not residents of the complex, and neither was the victim.