Teenage Boy Shot At Sarasota Apartment Complex: Cops

SARASOTA, FL -- Sarasota police said a teenage boy was shot late Tuesday afternoon at the Bellasol Apartments. The complex is located at 1200 Signal Pointe Circle.

Police did not immediately release the age of the teen or his condition.

"We’re investigating a shooting that happened just before 5 p.m. on Signal Pointe Circle in Bellasol Apts," explained the agency's Genevieve Judge.

She said the wounded teenager was taken to All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg.

Sarasota Patrol Captain Demetri Konstantopoulos said that the first officer arrived at the apartment complex within three minutes of the call to police.

Officers subsequently detained three juvenile boys for questioning.

Juveniles are also suspected in a Monday night shooting incident in which eight to 10 gunshots rang out in the 1900 block of 32nd Street. No injuries were reported in the earlier incident.

"They're kids again. It's troubling," Konstantopoulos acknowledged of the apartment complex shooting. "It's something that we definitely are concerned about as a police department and certainly we know that the community has the same concerns."

He said the initial call related to Tuesday's incident was reported as a possible robbery with a gunshot but police were unable to immediately confirm whether a robbery took place.