ST. LOUIS — A 17-year-old boy was shot while standing outside a home in St. Louis' Midtown neighborhood Tuesday night.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department responded at 10 p.m. to a shooting on the 2900 block of Samuel Shepard Drive. The victims, a 17-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man, said they were standing in front of a home when three suspects wearing face masks walked up to them, fired shots and ran away.
The boy was shot in the hip and taken to a hospital for treatment. Police did not give his condition but said that his vitals were listed as stable.
The man was not injured.
An investigation is underway.
A total of 120 children have been shot in the city of St. Louis in 2020, according to 5 On Your Side's data. Twenty of those shootings have been fatal.
