16-year-old shot multiple times at Lenexa apartment complex: Police
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 16-year-old boy is in the hospital after a shooting late Sunday night in Lenexa.
According to the Lenexa Police Department, officers were sent to a shooting at an apartment complex in Lenexa on Buckingham Road, a few blocks west of Oak Park Mall before I-35. Police said when they arrived everyone had left the scene.
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Shortly after, officers found a 16-year-old boy who they say had been shot multiple times. He was taken to a hospital for his injuries and is expected to recover, according to the police department.
Officers arrested a possible suspect who is a 19-year-old man.
The shooting is under investigation by the Lenexa Police Department with support from the Johnson County Crime Lab.
Anyone with information on the shooting is encouraged to call the Lenexa Police Department at 913-477-7301.
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