FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Two teenagers were arrested after an 8-year-old girl was shot Friday night in Fort Pierce, police said.
The girl was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach with non-life-threatening injuries and was listed in stable condition, Fort Pierce spokeswoman April Lee said. No other injuries were reported.
Police were called to the shooting at about 6:15 p.m. in the 1200 block of Avenue O.
Investigators determined the victim and two other children were sitting in their vehicle. As other family members were getting into the vehicle, two suspects in a white vehicle shot at the occupied vehicle before fleeing the scene.
Fort Pierce police detectives and patrol officers found the suspects and the vehicle involved in the shooting.
A 15-year-old boy and Ty Jheer Reeves, 18, were arrested.
Lee said the shooting appears to be an isolated incident.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call police.
