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LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A teenager was shot in a neighborhood off Fifth Avenue this afternoon, authorities said.
The 17-year-old boy suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting on East Lake Michelle Circle, according to information from the Lake Charles Police Department. Police responded at 5:01 p.m.
7News spoke to one resident who said he heard the shooting:
“What I heard, it sounded like fireworks. That’s what it mostly sounded like. I would say (I heard) like two or three, then I went back to sleep.”
LCPD asks anyone with information to call them at 337-491-1311.