NEW SHARON - A teenager was injured this morning after investigators say he accidentally shot his foot with a rifle. His injuries were described as non-life threatening.

On Saturday at 10:29 a.m. Trooper Reid Bond and Sgt. Peter Michaud of the Maine State Police responded to 236 Starks Road in New Sharon after a 16-year-old boy called 911 to report he had accidentally discharged a firearm and struck his foot.

"It was determined that the juvenile was preparing to shoot a .223 caliber rifle out back of the residence when he accidentally discharged it striking his foot," Bond said.

Northstar EMS ambulance personnel and first responders from the New Sharon Fire Department also responded to the scene. The juvenile was transported to a local hospital where he is being treated for his injury which is non-life threatening in nature. No one else was injured in the incident, Bond said.