15-year-old boy shot in the back in Auburn

Staff reports

A 15-year-old boy sustained a gunshot wound to the back Wednesday evening in the parking lot of Columbia Bank near the intersection of 41st Street Southeast and A Street Southeast.

Auburn police found the boy, described only as of Asian heritage, shortly after 11 p.m., conscious on the adjacent Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad tracks. Valley Regional Fire Authority personnel treated his wound, and King County Medic One transported him to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Auburn Police Sgt. Scott Near said the boy took a single bullet to his upper back which exited his upper chest. His condition was not available.

Near said there are no suspects in the shooting and that contrary to local media reports there is no indication that the shooting was drug related.

"He's not talking," said Near. "But it looks like a group of kids may have shot him in the back as he fled."

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