16-year-old killed, 2 injured in Phoenix shooting in near Interstate 17
A shooting early morning Wednesday in Phoenix left a 16-year-old dead and two people, including another teenager hospitalized, according to the Phoenix Police Department.
Police identified the teen who died as Jose Cordova Torres.
Officers responded to the southbound lanes of Interstate 17 near Northern Avenue at about 1 a.m. after receiving reports of a person laying on the road.
Officers found Cordova with multiple gunshot wounds and took him to a hospital where he died, police said.
Another teenager and a man later arrived at a hospital with gunshot injuries, police said.
Both people who were shot remain at the hospital with serious injuries. Officers believe they were related to the same shooting. The two injured men have not yet been identified by police.
Police said the shooting happened a couple of blocks west of where Cordova was found, in Glendale on North 47th and West Augusta avenues.
Detectives were at the location investigating what led to the shooting, police said.
Reach breaking news reporter Laura Daniella Sepulveda at lsepulveda@lavozarizona.com or on Twitter @lauradNews.
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