Crime

Police investigate drug activity after 3 teens are shot inside vacant Arlington apartment

Three teenagers who were shot on Sunday night in a vacant apartment in Arlington may have been involved in drug activity, police said.
Three teenagers who were shot on Sunday night in a vacant apartment in Arlington may have been involved in drug activity, police said.

Three people who were shot on Sunday night in a vacant apartment in Arlington may have been involved in drug activity, police said.

A 17-year-old girl remained on Monday morning at a hospital in critical condition, as did a 19-year-old man found in a car parked outside the building in the 2200 block of Lincoln Drive where they were shot about 7:45 p.m.

The third victim, a 19-year-old man, was found inside an adjacent apartment and suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Arlington police said.

The two victims found inside the apartments are related. Police did not release the relationship.

Police have not made an arrest.

Emerson Clarridge
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Emerson Clarridge covers crime and other breaking news for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He works days and reports on law enforcement affairs in Tarrant County. He previously was a reporter at the Omaha World-Herald and the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, New York.
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