A Sparta man is in stable condition after being shot during a fight in a Carbondale parking lot early Saturday, a hospital official said.

Bonnie Salvetti, nursing supervisor at the Memorial Hospital of Carbondale, said Tommy Martinez, 17, of Sparta, has improved since he was admitted to the hospital for three gunshot wounds police say he received during the fight in the 100 block of East Jackson Street.

He has been doing well, she said. He has improved, but he is not clearly out of the woods yet.

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Salvetti declined to comment on the nature of the wounds.

Police said Martinez underwent surgery at the hospital following the shooting at about 1:24 a.m. Saturday, for which two suspects have been arrested.

Police said Mark A. Mangan, 17, of Carbondale, and an unidentified 16-year-old male turned themselves into the Carbondale Police Station Sunday after Jackson County warrants were issued for their arrests.

Police said the warrants charged both suspects with aggravated discharge of a firearm and aggravated

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