A 17 year old receives medical treatment after being shot in Hamilton.

Police are hunting a man in a white car after a 17-year-old boy was shot in Hamilton.

The teen suffered minor injuries in the shooting on Norrie Street about 8.30pm on Thursday.

He was seen being treated in the back of an ambulance outside the Bader Street shops.

George Heard / Fairfax NZ The Peacockes Road and Norrie Street areas are cordoned off.

Police and the armed offenders squad had cleared a house on Norrie Street, and it would be guarded overnight.

Police said they were also searching another house in a different neighbourhood, and were still seeking the suspect and the white car.

Earlier, Norrie Street and nearby Peacockes Road were cordoned off as police, including a dog squad, and the armed offenders squad arrived.

The armed offenders squad was stood down shortly before 11pm.

It was the second shooting on the street within a week, but police said they were not drawing links between the two "at this time".

At 4am on Saturday, June 11, police were called to a house where a man had been shot in the leg.

GEORGE HEARD/FAIRFAX NZ Armed police are in attendance.

"He had a wound to his thigh causing minor injury," a police spokeswoman said.

After Thursday night's incident, police did not believe there was an ongoing risk to the public, but asked for any suspicious activity to be reported.

Norrie St was also the scene of a fatal shooting in February 2015.

GEORGE HEARD/FAIRFAX NZ A teenager being treated in an ambulance in Norrie Street, Hamilton, after shots were fired.

Michael James Thompson, 29, died in hospital shortly after he was shot at close range outside a house on the street.

Tyson Tainui Rukuwai Te Tomo, 18, was found guilty of Thompson's murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in September 2015.