14-year-old hit in shooting on I-70 Drive Northeast in Boone County

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A 14-year-old boy had non-life-threatening injuries after he was shot Saturday afternoon in the 10000 block of I-70 Drive Northeast, according to a Monday afternoon email from Boone County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Brian Leer.

Leer wrote deputies were called to a report of shots being fired around 3 p.m. that day. The youth was able to give law enforcement a description of the vehicle used and claimed one or more people shot at him, Leer wrote.

Deputies found "several" youths supposedly involved and determined they were meeting to sell drugs when shots were fired, Leer wrote.

One youth was arrested on suspicion of unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action; while another was arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action, Leer wrote.