Two teenagers were shot and another was arrested Friday night after a Passaic County Tech football game in Wayne, the District Attorney’s Office said.
A 16-year-old minor, whose identity has not been released, has been charged with juvenile delinquency charges that, if the suspect were an adult, would amount to attempted murder and two weapons charges, the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office announced Saturday morning.
The Passaic County Sheriff’s Office, which dispatched officers to the high school football game, found a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old both suffering non-fatal gunshot wounds around 7:30 p.m., the district attorney’s office said in a news release. Both were rushed to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson.
The shooting at Passaic Tech’s Reinhardt Road athletic field occurred after the school’s game against Lenape High School, a team from Medford in South Jersey.
A Lenape High School spokesperson said in a statement to CBS that no students or staff members at the school were involved in the incident or injured.
“Our thoughts are with the victims and the Passaic Technical Institute community,” Lenape HS said in a statement to CBS.
The Attorney General’s Office is asking anyone with information about the shooting to contact its tip line at 1-877-370-PCPO or tips@passaiccountynj.org.
This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: North Jersey HS football shooting leaves two teens injured in Wayne
