Shotgun-Toting Teenage Bandit Nabbed at East Side House: Police

A shotgun-toting teenage bandit was captured at a house on Mississippi Avenue Friday evening, police said.

Police were sent to the house to investigate a report of shots fired and of someone seen carrying a gun.

Officers located both the 16-year-old and an 18-year-old and charged them with trespassing, police said. The officers also reportedly found a pump-action shotgun.

A sergeant on the scene believed the 16-year-old matched the description of a youth wanted for an armed robbery that morning on Grover Street.

In that case, a teen brandished a pump-action shotgun at a man who had just gotten out of a car parked on Grover. The youth then demanded all the man’s money. The man told the teen he had no cash but surrendered his cigarettes.

The youth then opened the a door to the man’s car, reached inside and snatched the purse away from the man’s girlfriend.

The man picked the teen out of a photo lineup, police said. The youth was charged with armed robbery and taken to River Valley Juvenile Detention Center.