HOGANSVILLE, Ga. — A 17-year-old girl was taken to a hospital Tuesday after gunfire went off near a Hogansville playground, police say.
Hogansville Police were called to Jennings Home Apartments at 403 West Boyd Road just before 10 p.m. on Sept. 26 "in reference to gunshots in the area."
When police arrived, they found a "juvenile victim" on the playground of the apartment complex. The child was conscious and had "superficial injuries to her arm, stomach and leg," police said. She was taken to West Georgia Medical Center to have her injuries treated.
11Alive reached out to the police department to learn more, and police clarified that the juvenile victim was a 17-year-old girl who was either hit with shrapnel or shot, describing "6 BB sized puncture wounds" though emergency room doctors found no BBs, bullets or other objects when cleaning her wounds.
Police are still investigating the incident.
"Our two theories are possibly a person or persons some distance away firing in hat general direction or possibly shrapnel from a high power firework going off close to her," police said.
Officers ask that anyone with information on this case contact info@hogansvillepd.com or call Captain Marcus R. Rakestraw at 706-637-6648 or email him at mrakestraw@hogansvillepd.com.
