Soccer Game Shooting Prompts Minor's Arrest: Annapolis Police

ANNAPOLIS, MD — Police said they arrested the suspect accused of shooting a high schooler recently at an Annapolis pick-up soccer game.

Officers said they arrested a juvenile male in the case. Authorities have not publicly identified the minor or said what he is charged with.

"This was an isolated incident between the two young men," the Annapolis Police Department said on Facebook last Saturday, announcing the arrest.

The victim is an 18-year-old senior at Annapolis High School, WMAR reported. He's expected to survive.

WMAR said the gunshot was fired from close range with over two dozen people present, aged 16 to 19.

"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 on Feb. 4 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.

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."

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This map shows the area where officers said the shooting happened.