Lafayette Police have arrested a 14-year-old boy in connection with the shooting death of a 16-year-old girl.
Officers were called to the 600 block of East Willow at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday, a spokesman said.
They found a teenage girl suffering from a single gunshot wound to the chest. She was transported to a local hospital where she was later pronounced dead.
Detectives say she was sitting inside a parked car with a 14-year-old boy when he fired a pistol, wounding her.
The boy was booked with second-degree murder. He was booked into the Lafayette Parish Juvenile Detention Center, the spokesman said.
The shooting remains under investigation.
