EUSTIS, Fla.—Eustis Police Department is investigating a shooting that sent a teenager to the hospital by helicopter Sunday night.
According to a heavily-redated report, around 8:45 p.m., EPD responded to a report of a 14-year-boy who had been shot on Hazzard Avenue. As officers arrived, a woman flagged officers down and said the teen was inside a home, suffering from a gunshot wound.
Police entered the home and found the boy lying on his back with a gunshot wound to his inner thigh, according to a report. An officer rendered aid, applied pressure to the wound until Lake EMS arrived and took over the boy’s care. He was airlifted to Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando for treatment.
Witnesses told police the suspects shot through the window of the home and another witness, whose name is redacted, said she was sitting on the couch and heard what she thought were fireworks. She then noticed an “impact” on the refrigerator and heard the teen yelling he had been shot from outside the home. She told police she and her two sons helped the boy into the home. She said ran down the street in an attempt to engage the shooter but was “unsuccessful in locating anyone or the vehicle,” the report states.
Later in the report, a woman whose name is also redacted, said she grabbed her firearm and pointed it at a fleeing vehicle but did not fire any shots. EPD refuses to confirm if the two women are one in the same, stating it’s, “part of the investigation.”
Several more witnesses provided possible suspect information to police and a neighbor provided a still shot from a security camera that showed a vehicle he told police had slowly passed by his home numerous times before the shooting occurred. The make and model of the vehicle is redacted from the report.
Multiple shell casings were found near the scene, but how many, the type and the exact location are also redacted from the report.
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