By Blake Deshazo | The Selma Times-Journal

A Selma teenager was injured Monday after he was shot at while leaving a store.

Lt. Sam Miller with the Selma Police Department said the shooting happened between 5:30-6:15 p.m.

“Officers responded to Vaughan Regional Medical Center in reference to a gunshot victim,” Miller said.

“The juvenile advised them he was shot at the intersection of First Avenue and Church Street. He said he was leaving Cook’s Store on First Avenue when he heard the shot.”

Miller said detectives recovered shells from an assault rifle at the scene. Miller said the casings were 7.62mm.

The teenager was grazed on the lower back, but is expected to make a full recovery.

“He don’t have any idea who did it,” Miller said.

This is the third incident over the last month involving a teenager being shot. A 17-year-old was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head on River Road. A few days later a 17-year-old was grazed on the back of the head by a bullet while walking home from school.

Miller said detectives feels like the incidents are related.

“We feel that it is, but nobody is talking,” Miller said. “Everybody says they don’t know [anything], and then they’re going out here and shooting at each other.”

No arrest has been made.

Miller said if people would tell the police more details about what happened, they could solve more of these crimes.

“If people actually step up and say, ‘Yeah, he’s the one. He did it,’ and testify in court,” Miller said. “So that we can actually put them in jail so it can stop.”