By Associated Press - Thursday, July 6, 2017

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Authorities in North Carolina have arrested a teen who they say fatally shot a man and injured three others following a fireworks show.

Media outlets report a 16-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday and charged with murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and assault with a deadly weapon in connection with Tuesday night’s shooting.

Raleigh police said in a statement that police responded shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a shooting near a downtown Raleigh intersection. They say 18-year-old Raheem Khary Lawrence McAllister was taken to a hospital, where he later died of his injuries.

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Three other shooting victims were taken to the hospital and later released.

Further details haven’t been released.

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