MODESTO – A teen was flown to a hospital for care after suffering a gun shot wound Tuesday morning.
At around 10:30am police responded to a home on Dallas Street for a report of a person shot. When they arrived, they located the male teenage victim with a wound to the leg.
The teen was taken by ambulance to nearby Hanshaw Middle School, where emergency crews used the field as a landing zone for an air ambulance. The victim was loaded into the helicopter and taken to a hospital.
Police say it appears the shooting may have been accidental.