ST. LOUIS (AP) - A 14-year-old boy has been shot and killed in St. Louis, police there said.
The shooting happened in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood around 10:20 p.m. Wednesday, when officers were called to the area for a report of a shooting and found the teen with a gunshot wound to the head, police said. The boy was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police had not released the child's name by Thursday morning, and no arrests in the case had been reported.
St. Louis has seen a surge of gun violence involving children. Television station KSDK reported that the 14-year-old old's shooting marked the 97th child shot in St. Louis since the beginning of the year and the 15th child to die from a shooting this year. More than a dozen children ages 16 or younger were shot to death in the city in 2019.