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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY.com) -- A 16 year-old is shot in the leg, nowhe's behind bars charged with a crime. Newport News Police say that's because the boy was trying to rob a man at gunpoint in the one-thousand block of 25th street. What the teen didn't know was the robbery victim had a gun of his own.
Newport News Officer Harold Eley tells WAVY.com the robbery victim was justprotecting himself when he was approached by the teen Tuesday. Eley says the teen walked up to the man while he was in the backyard of a house on 25th street, pointed a gun at the man and tried to rob him.
That's when the victim pulled a gun and shot the teen in the leg. Eley says the teen ran and police caught up with him a block away. They took him to the hospital where he was treated and released back into police custody.
Through their investigation of Tuesday'srobbery, police say they were also able to connect the 16 year-old to a robbery and car jacking that happened in the 600 block of Aqua Vista Drive on Sunday.
"It's very serious. Anytime you have anyone with a handgun robbing people, especially a juvenile, we want to take care of that situation right away and get that person off the street, and in this case we've been able to take him off the street. It's a very serious thing," says Eley.
Eley says the teen is in Juvenile detention facing two felony charges of armed robbery and use of a firearm.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY.com) -- A 16 year-old is shot in the leg, nowhe's behind bars charged with a crime. Newport News Police say that's because the boy was trying to rob a man at gunpoint in the one-thousand block of 25th street. What the teen didn't know was the robbery victim had a gun of his own.
Newport News Officer Harold Eley tells WAVY.com the robbery victim was justprotecting himself when he was approached by the teen Tuesday. Eley says the teen walked up to the man while he was in the backyard of a house on 25th street, pointed a gun at the man and tried to rob him.
That's when the victim pulled a gun and shot the teen in the leg. Eley says the teen ran and police caught up with him a block away. They took him to the hospital where he was treated and released back into police custody.
Through their investigation of Tuesday'srobbery, police say they were also able to connect the 16 year-old to a robbery and car jacking that happened in the 600 block of Aqua Vista Drive on Sunday.
"It's very serious. Anytime you have anyone with a handgun robbing people, especially a juvenile, we want to take care of that situation right away and get that person off the street, and in this case we've been able to take him off the street. It's a very serious thing," says Eley.
Eley says the teen is in Juvenile detention facing two felony charges of armed robbery and use of a firearm.