ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The St. Petersburg Police Department is investigating a shooting on Sunday evening that led to a vehicle transporting a teenager injured from the incident to crash.
Shortly before 6 p.m. Sunday, there were reports to police of shots fired in the general area of Paris Avenue and 6th Street South.
Police said friends tried to drive a 15-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the hospital. The vehicle crashed a few minutes later at 5th Avenue South and 7th Street South.
The other people in the car ran away from the scene.
Paramedics transported the victim to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Detectives are still trying to determine the exact location of the shooting as well as its circumstances.
