SAN ANGELO, TX — Detectives with the San Angelo Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division are searching for a man who shot a San Angelo teen Saturday night in the College Hills subdivision, police said.
Police were dispatched to a San Angelo hospital at 9 p.m. Saturday to investigated the arrival in the emergency room of a shooting victim. Police said at the emergency room, officers learned that the victim, 18, had been brought into the emergency room by friends.
Police said the teen underwent emergency surgery for a gunshot wound to the abdomen and he remains hospitalized in serious condition.
On Twitter last night, friends of a wide receiver for the San Angelo Central Bobcats, indicated that he was the teen who was shot. “We all care for [him] but yet no one knows anything huh crazy how we care about him right,” Tweeted “Gabba,” or @Duran_duran06, who is pictured with the football player next to his car in her Twitter profile picture. Others chimed in with requests for prayers for the player, including Carlee Sparks (@CarleeSparks) who Tweeted, “When does this s*** stop? Guns are not f****g toys & all these little a** kids need to stop trying to stunt with them. Prayers for [the victim].”
Secrecy surrounds the identity of the victim. Neither hospital could confirm the name of the patient at their facility. We reached out to the San Angelo ISD on Sunday and are awaiting a response. We could not verify the name of the victim other than with anonymous tips that aligned with multiple Tweets on Twitter.
Police aren’t naming the shooting victim, either. But police did state their investigation revealed that the victim was attending a party at a residence, possibly near SAC Avenue and Oxford Drive, when the teen was engaged in a in a physical altercation with the suspect.
Police are look for that suspect who is described as a white male in his early-to-mid-twenties, with dreadlocks.
If you have any information about the suspect’s identity or whereabouts contact Detective Jason Chegwidden at (325) 659-8019. To remain anonymous, tip online at http://bit.ly/SAPDTips247, via text by texting: TIP SAPD to 888777 and follow the prompts, or by phone at 1-855-TIPS-247.
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