Teen shot outside party at a Pensacola American Legion shortly after midnight on Christmas
A teenager was shot Wednesday outside of a party at a Pensacola American Legion on Barrancas Avenue.
Teen shot outside party at a Pensacola American Legion shortly after midnight on Christmas A teenager was shot Wednesday outside of a party at a Pensacola American Legion on Barrancas Avenue. Check out this story on pnj.com: https://www.pnj.com/story/news/crime/2019/12/26/teenager-shot-wednesday-pensacola-near-party-american-legion-christmas/2748510001/
Colin Warren-Hicks, Pensacola News Journal Published 9:46 a.m. CT Dec. 26, 2019 | Updated 5:52 p.m. CT Dec. 26, 2019
A teenager was shot shortly after midnight Wednesday outside of a party at a Pensacola American Legion on Barrancas Avenue.
The 17-year-old male sustained a gunshot wound in his thigh and was driven to the hospital in a private vehicle. His injuries were not life-threatening, according to Pensacola Police Department spokesman Mike Wood.
The first of two shooting incidents in the area of where Barrancas Avenue and Intendencia Street intersect hit the 17-year-old, who had been an attendee at a party at a nearby American Legion, Wood said. The teenager was struck while standing in the American Legion parking lot.
"That has been a trouble spot," Wood said. "When there have been parties at that America Legion, police have been called for everything from disturbances, to fights and to shootings."
But a second shooting incidents that was fired close to the intersection of E Street and Intendencia Street did not hit anyone, Wood said.
Based on witnesses' statements, investigators believe that shots were fired from a vehicle at another vehicle, as the two vehicles passed each other, Wood said.
"We know that there were two cars, not SUVs or other types of vehicles," Wood said, before adding that witnesses were unable to provide law enforcement with the vehicles' makes or models.
Police are searching for the shooting suspect described as a black male wearing blue jeans with a denim jacket.
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