(KNXV) – Police are investigating a shooting in the Salt River area that left a 16-year-old boy dead Friday.
At around 1:40 a.m., Salt River police officers were dispatched to northbound Loop 101 near Chaparral Road due to a reported shooting in the area.
Officers arrived to find a 16-year-old boy dead from a gunshot wound inside a vehicle.
Mesa Police Department detectives are leading the investigation into the shooting.
No other information on the shooting was released.
