CHARLOTTE — A juvenile accidentally shot themselves Thursday while running from the police during a stolen car investigation, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said.
A license-plate reader notified officers of a stolen vehicle so they tried to pull it over, but the driver didn’t stop.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police followed the car until it drove into a yard near Burroughs Street off North Tryon Street. Four people jumped out and led police on a chase.
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Officers then heard a gunshot near a woodline. They found a juvenile near a creek who was “suffering from an apparent accidental, self-inflicted gunshot.”
Officers rendered aid and applied a tourniquet. Officers recovered the gun under the kid, police said.
The gunshot victim was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
A K-9 unit found another juvenile suspect with two more guns.
No further information has been released.
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