AMHERST COUNTY, Va. – A 17-year-old boy is in custody after a shooting early Thursday morning in Amherst County.
The Amherst County Sheriff’s Office responded at about 3 a.m. after learning that a man had been shot at a home in the 100 block of Longview Drive in the Madison Heights area of the county.
The victim, a 51-year-old man, left the home before deputies arrived, but was later found at Sheetz in Madison Heights, according to the Sheriff's Office. He is being treated for a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
When deputies found the alleged shooter, a 17-year-old boy, he tried to run away from them, but was quickly caught, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Investigators do not know whether the 17-year-old and 51-year-old knew each other before the shooting, but the boy did not live at the address.
He was taken into custody and charged with malicious wounding and using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
He is being held in the Lynchburg Detention Center.
This incident continues to be investigated by the Sheriff’s Office.