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Cleveland police said a 17-year-old girl was struck by a stray bullet Tuesday near Glenville Recreation Center on the city's East Side.

(Brandon Blackwell, Northeast Ohio Media Group)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Triplets arrested this week in connection with a shootout that wounded a 17-year-old Cleveland girl have been released without charges, police said Thursday.

The 18-year-old brothers were released after the girl, Precious Marshall, told investigators that the triplets were not among those who opened fire about 5 p.m. Tuesday near the Glenville Recreation Center on East 113th Street, police said.

Marshall, who was walking in the yard behind the recreation center, was caught in a crossfire when, according to what she initially told investigators, someone in a black car exchanged gunfire with someone in a red car.

A bullet struck Marshall's hip and traveled to the middle of her back, she told Northeast Ohio Media Group on Wednesday.

She also said that she knew the triplets and that she was hurt to learn that the bullet that struck her might have been fired by one of them.

"I wouldn't know what to say to them," she said.

Police will continue to investigate the case, spokeswoman Det. Jennifer Ciaccia said. No other arrests have been made.