Two teenage boys were shot in an altercation Stafford County, Virginia, Thursday afternoon.
The boys were shot about 4 p.m. in the 3000 block of Parkway Boulevard, near a playground and community pool.
Two 17-year-old boys from Woodbridge got into an alteration with a 15-year-old boy from Stafford, according to the Stafford County Sheriff's Office.
The 15-year-old was shot in the back and flown to a hospital with serious injuries.
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A K-9 unit tracked the 17-year-olds to a shed on Boodocks Lane. One of them had a gunshot wound to his leg and was treated at a hospital before being released to deputies, according to the sheriff's office.
After three hours of searching the woods, detectives found three handguns nearby, according to the sheriff's office.
The 17-year-old with the gunshot wound was charged with aggravated malicious wounding and use of a firearm during the commission of a felony. The other 17-year-old was charged with possession of a firearm by a minor and grand larceny of a firearm. They are being held at the Juvenile Detention Center.
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H.H. Poole Middle School, Park Ridge Elementary School, the Merit School of Stafford and Porter Library were locked down as a precaution, and North Stafford High School was put on partial lockdown.
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