JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) - Authorities say they’ve arrested a 15-year-old boy from Jersey City with shooting two 16-year-olds and charged him with attempted murder.
City spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill tells The Jersey Journal (https://bit.ly/1MkJ8io ) the boy was arrested Sunday outside his home on Claremont Avenue.
Officials say a 16-year-old boy and girl were shot about 6:15 p.m. Saturday near Martin Luther King Drive and Forrest Street.
Morrill says the boy was shot in the shoulder and is stable at Jersey City Medical Center-Barnabas Health. The girl is in critical condition at the same hospital.
A motive in the shooting is unclear.
The teens’ names were not given.
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