WYOMING, Mich. — A 15-year-old boy is in the hospital, having been shot at a Wyoming business on Tuesday, during what police say was an attempted robbery.
Police say the teenager was shot near 3530 South Division Avenue, in the same neighborhood as Godwin Heights Middle School.
That's the address of a business, police say, and they were called there around 7:15 pm by a hold-up alarm.
Only fifteen minutes before, police say a car was reported stolen out of a Grand Rapids driveway on the southeast side of the city.
Soon after those two reports, police heard that a 15-year-old boy had been found near the South Division business with a gunshot wound.
Police say the teenager, along with two other individuals, was involved in an attempted robbery at the business.
We're told the teen and the other two individuals arrived at the business in the car stolen out of Grand Rapids. They reportedly got in a fight with an adult male employee at the business, who fired a single shot.
The other two ran off after the shot was fired.
At this time, police believe only the 15-year-old with the gunshot wound was hurt.
He was taken to the hospital, police say, in serious condition, but he is expected to pull through.
The stolen vehicle was recovered at the scene, authorities say.
The Wyoming Department of Public Safety held a news conference Wednesday afternoon on this as well as another recent shooting that occurred in the area.
Watch the news conference here:
Wyoming DPS says the other two individuals are still on the loose. Public safety officials describe one as wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt and the other dressed in a "multi-colored zip-up sweatshirt." Ages and races are unavailable due to surgical masks they were wearing at the time, officials say.
The two robbery suspects are encouraged by police to turn themselves in.
Also, police say the shooting on South Division is not believed to be connected to an earlier shooting, one that killed a 17-year-old on Indian Mound Drive earlier on Tuesday.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to contact Wyoming Police at 616-530-7300 or Silent Observer at 616-774-2345.
