ATLANTIC CITY — A 17-year-old boy was arrested Monday and police seized a gun after shots were fired in the city’s Westside neighborhood.
At 11:43 a.m., officers responded to the 500 block of North Ohio Avenue after receiving an alert from the city’s gunshot-audio detection system, police said in a news release. When they got there, officers found evidence of gunfire and got reports that a boy who fired the gun ran into a home on the block.
Hamilton Township has instituted a 7 p.m. curfew thought June 9, according to a release from the township police department.
Officers surrounded the home with the city’s SWAT team, and everyone inside complied when they were ordered out of the residence, police said.
Police recovered a loaded handgun with ammunition that matched the shell casings found in the street, police said, and identified the 17-year-old as the suspect.
The teen, whom police did not identify, was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.
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He was remanded to the Harborfields Youth Detention Center in Egg Harbor City.
