16-year-old girl shot in abdomen in south Fort Worth, police say
Fort Worth officers responded to a shooting Wednesday afternoon on Spurgeon Street where a 16-year-old girl was shot, police said.
The shooting was initially reported by a caller as a drive-by, but when officers arrived, they found the 16-year-old victim inside a house with a gunshot wound to her abdomen and a .22-caliber gun lying next to her, according to Officer Jimmy Pollozani, a police spokesman.
The 17-year-old father of the victim’s child was also in the room with her, police said.
“At this time neither the male nor the female is saying who shot the female,” Pollozani said in an email.
The girl was in critical condition, according to MedStar, but police said her wound is not believed to be life-threatening.
No arrests have been made as of Wednesday afternoon.
Units were dispatched around 12:30 p.m. to the home in the 500 block of West Spurgeon Street in south Fort Worth.
The caller had told police a 16-year-old girl was sitting on a porch when an “unknown vehicle drove by and shot her,” Pollozani said, but when officers arrived they found the victim inside the house.
This story was originally published November 13, 2019 at 1:21 PM.
