A 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with shooting a 14-year-old girl standing in a group of other people late Sunday.

CANTON A 15-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with shooting a 14-year-old girl standing in a group of other people late Sunday outside a northwest Canton home.

The boy was arrested about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at his home in the 1100 block of Fulton Road NW, said Lt. Roger Crihfield of the police department's detective bureau.

The boy is charged with felonious assault, Crihfield said, adding that further charges are pending as the investigation continued Wednesday afternoon.

Police believe he pulled the trigger on a handgun aimed into a group of people in a parking lot at Auburn Place NW and Oxford Avenue about 11:55 p.m. Sunday. The bullet struck the girl in the abdomen.

She was taken to an area hospital and then on to Akron Children's Hospital, where she remained Tuesday. Her condition Wednesday was unknown.

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