A teenager is in the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound to the leg after he was shot this morning. At around 8:00, Jermaine Grant was riding a bicycle near the community football field, when he was shot. A police patrol was in the area and responded to the report of gunshots. When they arrived, they claim they saw Grant with the injury to his leg trying to ride away. He didn't get far, and when police stopped him they found him not only bleeding from the gunshot wound to the leg, right above that he carried a.38 revolver with four live rounds and two expended shells in his pocket. Police took him to the hospital where he is being tread for his injuries. He will be charged when he is released. They also have in custody the young man who is alleged to have shot him.

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