HENRICO COUNTY, Va. β Two people were shot in Henrico County Friday afternoon, including a 16-year-old who was critically injured, according to Henrico Police.
The shooting occurred around 4 p.m. near the intersection of Ammons Avenue and Byron Street. An officer working an abandoned car call at Laburnum Avenue and Mechanicsville Turnpike was approached by a Dodge Durango with three people inside, two of whom had gunshot wounds and were asking for help.
Crime Insider sources said a 19-year-old male suffered non-life-threatening wounds, while the 16-year-old male was critically injured.
Residents in the area expressed shock and concern about the violence in their neighborhood.
"Something that I thought would never happen in my neighborhood. This is scary. It's shocking," one resident said.
Another woman living near the scene said incidents like this make her want to keep her children inside.
"These days you got to be careful on everything. When you're going places, you just got to be careful because you never know what people are going through," she said.
A man who owns a rental home on the street described seeing a group of kids playing basketball in the cul-de-sac on a rim with no backboard, which didn't belong to any of them. He said the shots were fired at a time when children were getting home from school.
"It's older kids down here playing where younger kids usually be that that's not from down here," he said. "Some shots went off in a lot of directions and some shots went off when the Durango pulled out so anybody could have got hurt down here and we're not used to having anything like that down here."
One witness described hearing what sounded like "something that was shooting a lot of bullets at the same time."
Henrico County detectives are investigating the shooting. Anyone with information is asked to call the anonymous tip line at 804-780-1000 or text tips using the P3 app.
This is a developing story. Email the CBS 6 Newsroom if you have additional information to share.
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