Ashooting early Sunday along the Rimrocks in Billings injured a 16-year-old boy and police believe the shooting happened near the “lollipop” water tower.
Billings police had previously described the victim as a juvenile. He was initially said to have non-life threatening injuries.
BPD officers had been in the area, around the 1400 block of Rimrock Road, which runs south of the Rims, when they heard gunfire, according to Wooley.
The 16-year-old injured in Sunday’s shooting is at least the second teenager injured this year in a shooting in the vicinity of the water tower located off Highway 3 west of the Billings Logan International Airport.
On Jan. 21, 19-year-old Kane Streitz was shot and fatally injured. He was hospitalized and died four days later. His family has said they believe his shooting was accidental, and Billings police have so far announced no arrests related to the homicide investigation they opened after the shooting.
