Teenager Wounded in Monday Shooting

A 17-year-old boy suffered a non-life threatening gunshot wound to his leg early Monday morning, according to a Newark Police Department spokesman.

Police officers who responded to a report of shots fired at 1:21 a.m. found the boy inside a home in the 6300 block of Mirabeau Avenue, said Commander Robert Douglas of the NPD.

Douglas did not say whether the shooting occurred inside the home. The teenager was treated at a local hospital and released, he said. There is no evidence at this time that the incident is gang-related, but police are not ruling out that possibility, he added.

The incident is the fifth reported shooting in Newark this year.

Newark officers have responded to four other shootings so far in 2011:

• On March 17, a 14-year-old boy was shot in what police say was a gang-related indident on Cherry Street. Click here for more information on that shooting.
• On Feb. 23, someone shot an 18-year-old man in the legs at a housing complex on Cedar Boulevard near Lido Court. More information on that incident can be found here.
• On Jan. 29, a man was shot several times in an alley behind Madeira’s Liquor Store on Newark Boulevard. For more on that incident, .
• On Jan. 20, someone shot a 19-year-old man as he was driving by Haley Street and Cedar Boulevard. You can read more about that incident .