FRESNO, Calif. (KNX) — A 15-year-old girl has been hospitalized after being shot Sunday night at another teen’s 16th birthday party. The party took place in an Airbnb rental home in central Fresno.
According to Fresno police, the shooting occurred shortly before 9 p.m. at a home on Vagedes Avenue, just north of Olive Avenue. Officers found the girl inside the home with a gunshot wound to her upper torso. She was transported to a local hospital where she was rushed to surgery in an unknown condition.
The shooting reportedly happened after a group was asked to leave the party. Members of the group containing the alleged shooter fled the area in a vehicle, but crashed into a parked car. They then fled on foot.
No adults were on the property at the time of the shooting.
“The birthday party was posted on social media and then the party, for lack of better words, got out of control,” said Fresno police Lt. Paul Cervantes. “It was nothing short of a melee, it was chaotic, pandemonium. Individuals were fleeing on foot, hopping fences, cars leaving the area crashing into parked vehicles.”
A neighboring house and two parked cars were hit by gunfire.
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