Crime & Safety
9-Year-Old Shot In Back At Tampa Robles Park Basketball Courts
Witnesses said two teen boys got in a fight and one of them went home, grabbed a gun and began shooting toward the basketball courts.
TAMPA, FL — A 9-year-old shot in lower back near Robles Park is in stable condition in the hospital Wednesday morning.
At 7:14 p.m. Tuesday, Tampa police were called to the Robles Park basketball courts at East Lake Drive and North Avon Avenue after a fight broke out between two teenage boys on the basketball court.
According to witnesses, one of the boys went home, grabbed a gun and fired a weapon in the direction of the courts, striking the little girl in the lower back.
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The teen was taken into custody.
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