Police: Teen Shot Outside Lansing School
LANSING, Mich. (WWJ/AP) — Police say a 15-year-old girl has been shot outside a Michigan school.
Lansing Police Chief Mike Yankowski says the injury doesn't appear to be life-threatening. The shooting occurred Friday afternoon at Pattengill Academy, a school for students in fourth through sixth grades.
Yankowski says the girl was injured while inside a car. She was taken to a hospital. The vehicle is in police custody.
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Police say the person of interest in this case is 21-year-old Lansing resident Kahlil Jamal Withers-Fleming.
Lansing school district spokesman Bob Kolt tells the Lansing State Journal that 80 to 90 students were inside Pattengill Academy at the time of the shooting.
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