A boy suffered serious but nonlife-threatening injuries when he was accidentally shot while playing with a firearm in East Knoxville, police said.

The juvenile, whose age was not specified, arrived at East Tennessee Children's Hospital at 8:21 p.m. Tuesday with a gunshot wound, according to a Knoxville Police Department news release.

The victim initially gave the wrong location of where the shooting happened. Police now believe it occurred on the 2700 block of Tarleton Avenue.

"Witnesses and friends of the victim were uncooperative with officers and investigators at the scene," the release states.