Erie police investigating after 17-year-old said someone in passing car shot him in foot
Erie police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting on Thursday night of a 17-year-old boy who told police he was wounded by gunfire fired from a passing vehicle.
Police said they learned of the shooting when officers were summoned to Saint Vincent Hospital shortly before 8 p.m. Thursday after the boy walked into the hospital with a gunshot wound to his foot.
The boy told police he was walking in the area of East 26th and Perry streets at about 7:30 p.m. Thursday when a vehicle drove by and someone shot at him, Deputy Chief Rick Lorah said. The boy could not provide a description of the vehicle. Lorah said.
The boy told police he went to his uncle's house and the uncle gave him a ride to the hospital. But the boy could not provide his uncle's last name or address, and the uncle was not at the hospital when police arrived, Lorah said.
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The boy is the first person known by police to have been shot in the city since mid-December.
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