NATCHEZ — One man was airlifted to Rapides Regional Medical Center Monday night after officers responded to a shots-fired on Irving Lane.

Four Natchez Police Department cars crowded around a silver sedan sitting on a front lawn at the intersection of Government Fleet Road and Irving Lane.

Natchez Police Department Chief Walter Armstrong said the investigation was in its early stages, and that little information is currently available.

Dispatchers on the police scanner said they received a call from a woman saying she had accidentally shot her boyfriend, and Armstrong said the woman, who was in a relationship with the man in the driver’s seat, had told officers this as well.

Anthony Goodwin, who lives near Irving Lane, said he heard the gunshot and ran outside to see what had happened.

Goodwin, who works on an ambulance in Vidalia, leaned over the man in the driver’s seat as officers waited for an ambulance to arrive.

The ambulance arrived at the scene at approximately 8:35 p.m., and responders immediately approached the man in the driver’s seat of the sedan.

Goodwin helped emergency responders lift the man in the driver’s seat from the vehicle and place him on a stretcher.

“I don’t know what happened,” Goodwin said. “I don’t know him personally. I just heard a shot.”

The man in the driver’s seat of the sedan, clothed in grey sweatpants and a dark sweatshirt, turned sideways for a moment, revealing a white gauze stained with red on the lower left side of his back.

Armstrong said he could not confirm the location of the gunshot wound.

The ambulance left at approximately 8:46 p.m. and took the man to the helipad, where he was taken by a helicopter to Rapides.

Officers searching the area found a little, gold bullet casing in the parking lot across the street.

“It’s very early stages we haven’t even talked with everyone,” Armstrong said. “We will know more as the investigation continues.”