Teen shot outside apartment off Lorimier Street

Cape Girardeau police and emergency medical technicians treated a 17-year-old gunshot victim in the parking lot behind the KFVS12 building Thursday night.

The victim was shot once in the right side of his chest.

He was vocalizing the pain he was in but was conscious and communicating with his friend Daryus Watson, 18, of St. Louis as he was being treated.

Police officers watch over the victim’s clothes after a shooting Thursday in the KFVS12 parking lot in downtown Cape Girardeau.GLENN LANDBERG ~ glandberg@semissourian.com

Watson said he was with the victim and two other teenagers on the breezeway of Lorimont House apartments off North Lorimier Street when someone arrived and fired several shots.

Watson said there were six or seven shots fired, with his friend being struck by the fourth shot.

Another neighbor reported hearing as many as 10 shots, while a different neighbor said it was 15.

A neighbor said a dark-colored vehicle pulled up alongside the apartment building before the shots were fired.

Police were investigating the shooting after the victim was transported, trying to find shell casings on Lorimier Street in front of the apartment building.

Watson said he was not sure whether he and his friends were the intended targets of the shootings.

He said they do not know that many people in town.

“This was the stuff I was trying to get away from,” Watson said, referring to violence in the St. Louis area.

Cape Girardeau public-information officer Adam Glueck said the shooter was still at large, and as of Thursday evening, he could not say whether the incident was related to the discovery of a body near Ranney Park earlier in the day.

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Pertinent address:

235 Lorimier St., Cape Girardeau, Mo.