By CBS3 Staff
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A teenager has been hospitalized after he was shot in West Philadelphia on Tuesday afternoon. It happened shortly before 3 p.m. on the 5500 block of West Girard Avenue.
Philadelphia Police say the 17-year-old boy was shot once in the right buttock.
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No arrests have been made and no weapon has been recovered.
It’s not yet known what sparked the shooting.
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