CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — Police said a 14-year-old had multiple gunshot wounds after someone opened fire on his mother’s car while she was picking him and his friends up from a skating rink.
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The teen’s grandmother told Channel 2’s Tom Jones on Thursday that he is conscious and alert but still in the ICU. She said he was shot in the chest and shoulder, and it happened after a fight as he was leaving the skating rink.
The shooting happened on Thursday at Skate Zone on the 6000 block of Mt. Zion Boulevard. The injured teen was taken to the hospital in stable condition, Clayton County police said.
Police later received a call about a possible suspect on Maddox Road and took them into custody.
Officers initially responded to a home on the 2000 block of Amish Court around 8:30 p.m. and found the injured victim, who had left the scene.
Police said a mother dropped off the victim, her son, and his friends at the location on Mt. Zion Boulevard around 6:30 p.m. When she arrived to pick them up later in a red Ford Fusion, one or more people opened fire at the vehicle.
Officers who went to the location of the shooting said they found a large group of juveniles in the parking lot, and additional units arrived to help with crowd control.
The identities of the victim and suspect were not released. The incident remains under investigation, police said.
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