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WORCESTER (AP) - Worcester police continue to investigate the weekend shooting of a 15-year-old boy.
Police say the boy was shot in the hand early Saturday morning by someone driving past in a vehicle.
Police learned about the shooting when they responded to St. Vincent Hospital.
The boy said he had been at a house party earlier, then left with two others and was shot as he walked home.
After being shot he continued home, where a family member drove him to the hospital.
In response to the shooting, police have stepped up patrols in the neighborhood
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