BROCKTON, MASS. (WHDH) - Police are investigating after a 16-year-old was fatally shot at a party in Brockton early Saturday morning, according to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office.
Officers and troopers responding to reports of a shooting at a Sprague Street home around 1:39 a.m. found a male teenager suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. The teenager, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Witnesses said a large crowd was at the home for a party and they fled after shots were fired.
“All these kids running, screaming, going to my neighbor’s, jumping their back fence, hiding under their car,” said neighbor Lilian Padilla. “It was a bad scene, I’ve never seen anything like that.”
No other information was immediately available.
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