Boy, 16, shot at city house

A 16-year-old boy was shot today by a gunman who burst into a house in Wolverhampton in broad daylight.

The teenager was blasted in the arm at a house in Penn Fields, near to the Waitrose supermarket, by an attacker who then fled.

Click on the thumbnails above to see more pictures from the scene.

Half of Owen Road, where the shooting happened at around 10.30am today, was sealed off at its junctions with Burleigh Road and Lea Road this afternoon.

Detectives were unable to say what kind of weapon was fired in the attack.

Forensic experts in white suits were working at the scene this afternoon as an officer stood guard outside the terraced house.

It happened just yards from where Wolverhampton Pc Geoff King was shot by a suspect he had tried to speak to outside the Bromford Rise flats in 2006.

One neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: "We've had a few small incidents around here but it's generally really quiet.

"The first I heard about it was when I came to collect a delivery at the front door and saw a police cordon."

Inspector Richard Vickers, from Bilston Street police station, said today: "We are in the very early stages of investigating exactly what has taken place on Owen Road this morning.

"The victim's injuries are not considered life threatening at this stage."nextpage