17-year-old boy traded gunfire with attackers, police report says

A 17-year-old boy who was was shot and critically injured this week was reportedly armed with a pistol and shot back at his attackers before running into a house on Ford Road in southwest Memphis, according to a police incident report.

The 17-year-old’s name is blacked out of the report about the shooting, which was reported shortly after 1 p.m. Thursday.

According to a witness account, a vehicle with four people inside pulled up to the victim. Someone inside the vehicle reportedly said, “What’s up my (expletive)?” Shots were fired from the vehicle, and the teenaged victim ran away. A witness said two suspects got out of the vehicle and kept firing shots at the teenager.

According to the police report, the victim shot back at the attackers. A witness said the victim had been holding a black handgun as he approached a house.

Another person told police the victim ran into her house bleeding from a gunshot wound.

She told officers that the teen boy called his mother while lying in the house and that the mother arrived and drove drove him to a fire station. An ambulance took the victim in critical condition to the Regional Medical Center.

Police found a loaded .40 caliber pistol in the vehicle the mother was driving, the report says.

Officers found a live .40 cartridge in the house and a spent .40 shell casing outside, the report says.

Officers also found eight shell casings nearby in 7.62 by 39 caliber. That’s a type of cartridge that’s commonly used in AK-47 style rifles.

An update on the victim’s condition wasn’t immediately available.

The neighborhood where the shooting happened is a short distance east of T.O. Fuller State Park and McKellar Lake.

Reach reporter Daniel Connolly at 529-5296, daniel.connolly@commercialappeal.com, or on Twitter at @danielconnolly.

Daniel Connolly and Patrick Graziosi