A 16-year-old boy was found shot to death in a Lawrenceville neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, Gwinnett County police said.
Homicide investigators responded to the cul-de-sac neighborhood on Paden Mill Trail and found the teenager dead from a gunshot wound, Gwinnett police spokesman Cpl. Ryan Winderweedle said. It was not clear when the shooting took place, but police said the teen had been reported as a runaway.
No additional details were released and police are withholding the victim’s identity until they notify his next of kin. Winderweedle said no suspect has been identified.
This is the third time in a matter of weeks that police have found a missing teenager from Gwinnett dead.
In early February, 17-year-old Rodrigo Floriano Mayen of Duluth was found dead with drugs in his system several days after he was reported missing. Another teen was arrested after turning himself in on charges that he concealed the death from police.
That same week, the body of 16-year-old Susana Morales was found in the woods near Dacula. She had been missing since July. Both teens were students at Meadowcreek High School.
In the weeks since Morales’ body was discovered, former Doraville police officer Miles Bryant was first arrested on charges of concealing her death and later charged with her murder.
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