A 17-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the foot on Wednesday in Wilmington's Riverside neighborhood, police said.

He has since been charged with possession of a firearm by a person prohibited.

Wilmington police responded to a report of gunfire in the first block of Jensen Drive, spokesman David Karas confirmed on Friday.

The boy was taken to the hospital and treated for a foot injury that was not life-threatening.

The accidental shooting comes six months after a 13-year-old boy accidentally killed himself with a gun in his Wilmington home. Ty'mire Selby was herald as the community “water boy, and his mother told The News Journal in August she never let him around guns, not even fake guns.

"I'm scared of those things,” she said. “You know kids find guns and drugs in the streets all the time in this area. It sends a bad message to any child."

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