Updated Thursday at 6 p.m. with more information from police.

FERGUSON • A Ferguson Middle School student was shot Wednesday night by another juvenile after a group was asked to leave a basketball game for arguing, police said.

Police confirmed Thursday that the juvenile has since been released from the hospital.

Police were called to the school about 6 p.m. for a student with a gunshot wound to the leg. Officers arrived to discover the victim had been shot in a secluded part of a neighborhood across from January Wabash Park, then ran back to the school, said Interim Police Chief Frank McCall.

McCall said he was unsure if the suspected shooter attends the school. Police believe there were between 12 and 20 juveniles present when the shooting began. The shooter apparently used a handgun, McCall said. Police said in a statement that the suspects fled the scene following the shooting but were arrested shortly thereafter.

"If you have a disagreement on something, apparently they're going to confrontation as opposed to conversation and that's bad within itself," McCall said. "I just don't think all the parties had expected gun play to come out of it."