Police have publicly identified the 15-year-old boy was found dead inside of a vehicle at a busy Wyoming intersection early Saturday morning.
Authorities said they were called to Byron Center Avenue SW and Prairie Parkway SW around 1:15 a.m. on reports of a person being shot. When first responders arrived, they found Emanuel Jesus Hernandez inside a vehicle with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Authorities’ initial investigation indicates that the victim was shot in the parking lot of 1965 Prairie Parkway and the driver of the vehicle was trying to take the teen to a hospital.
Officials told News 8 that the relationship between the victim and the shooter or shooters is not known at this time but preliminary information suggests the incident is not random.
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