UPDATE: Man hospitalized, 15-year-old boy in custody after Fort Valley shooting

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UPDATE: Fort Valley Police Captain Marberry has provided some more information, as well as corrections to the previous release from Fort Valley Police concerning the shooting at Indian Oaks Apartments. Marberry says the victim is not a juvenile, but a 21-year-old man, and that the suspect behind the shooting is a 15-year-old juvenile male.


FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A shooting in Fort Valley Tuesday morning left one boy hospitalized, and another boy in custody at the Macon Regional Youth Detention Center.

According to Fort Valley Police, officers responded to a shooting in the 1100 block of East Church Street Tuesday in reference to a person shot– when they arrived, they found that the victim was a male juvenile who had been shot in his lower extremities. He was taken to Atrium Navicent Health by Peach EMS.

Through investigation, officers found that another juvenile male was the suspect behind the shooting. Officers apprehended the boy in the vicinity of the incident after a foot chase. He is currently being held at the Macon Regional Youth Detention Center on Aggravated Assault Charges.

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