Crime & Safety
High Schooler Shot At Pick-Up Soccer Game In Annapolis: Reports
A high schooler was shot at a pick-up soccer game in Annapolis, reports said. "Somebody was shot and the game continued," police said.
ANNAPOLIS, MD — A high schooler was shot at a pick-up soccer game in Annapolis this week, reports said. He's expected to survive, but authorities haven't found the shooter.
The victim is an 18-year-old senior at Annapolis High School, WMAR reported.
WMAR said the gunshot was fired from close range with over two dozen people present, aged 16 to 19.
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"The soccer game was still going on and I was just amazed at how de-sensitized we've become as a community, as a society," Annapolis Police Chief Ed Jackson said, according to WMAR. "Somebody was shot and the game continued."
WJZ reported that the shooting happened Tuesday around 3:47 p.m. at a field behind the Wiley H. Bates Heritage Park, the Boys & Girls Club of Annapolis and the Annapolis Senior Center at 129 S. Villa Ave.
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The Annapolis Police Department said the victim was shot in the head.
The victim was flown to the University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Eye On Annapolis said.
Officers think the shooting was targeted, WJZ said, noting that the victim is "alive and alert."
"He was conscious and lucid," Jackson said, according to WJZ. "He wasn't able to say what happened to him but we did know he had been shot."
This map shows the area where officers said the shooting happened.
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