Mt. Vernon Police are investigating the Friday night shooting of a 17-year-old Mt. Vernon juvenile boy.
Police report they were notified of the shooting when the juvenile showed up at the emergency room of SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital. The juvenile sustained one gunshot wound, but Assistant Chief Roger Brands says at this point they are not saying where the juvenile was hit. The juvenile was later transported by medical helicopter to a St. Louis hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Brands says the police department is not releasing information at this time on where the shooting occurred because of too many variables still under investigation.
So far no arrests have been made.
Police first learned of the shooting at 9:32 Friday evening.
