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A 10-year-old boy was wounded Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, when a bullet entered his Hoover apartment, apparently fired from inside an adjacent unit.

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A 10-year-old boy was wounded by gunfire Tuesday night when a bullet entered his apartment, apparently from an adjacent unit.

The shooting happened at 10:32 p.m. in the 3200 block of Warringwood Heights Apartments on Warringwood Drive, said Hoover police spokesman Lt. Keith Czeskleba. The boy was in the living room of his home when a bullet came through the wall from an adjacent apartment and struck him in the groin.

Hoover paramedics treated the boy at the scene, and then took him to Children's of Alabama. Czeskleba said the boy was conscious and alert when he was taken to the hospital.

The person in the apartment from where the gunshot originated fled the scene before police arrived. He later turned himself into Hoover police and was taken into custody for questioning.

Detectives are still on the scene investigating the circumstances that led to the shooting. More information will be released as it becomes available.