In an update about a shooting incident that left a 15-year-old boy nursing a gunshot wound at the Intensive Care Unit of the JNF General Hospital, lawmen said one individual is in custody assisting with the investigation.

Police say the incident occurred on Monday January 15th in the St. Paul’s area, St. Kitts.

Sources say the boy broke into a man’s home and the home owner, who has a licensed firearm, shot the perpetrator. A police spokesperson told the VONNEWSLINE the boy was shot in the lower mid-section.

He was taken to the Pogson Hospital in Sandy Point by a private vehicle and thereafter, transported to the Joseph N. France General Hospital via ambulance for emergency surgery. He is said to be in critical condition.