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13-year-old boy dead, another injured in shooting on Detroit's east side; police investigating

A 13-year-old boy is dead and another 13-year-old is injured after a shooting Friday night in Detroit, according to police.

The shooting happened after 9 p.m. in the area of Anglin and East Lantz streets. The boy who was injured was taken to a hospital. His current condition is unknown.

"This community is outraged. We are tired of this youth violence," said Deputy Chief Franklin Hayes. " This is not OK. This is not acceptable. We will not tolerate it."

Hayes said three teens were walking when a dark-colored vehicle pulled alongside them. He said that after words were exchanged, someone inside the vehicle fired shots, fatally wounding one teen and injuring the other.

Hayes said the two victims were stepbrothers.

"As a parent myself of a 13-year-old, certainly our hearts go out to them (the family). The police department, the city, our hearts go out to them," he said.

A nearby resident said that no parent should ever have to bury their child at any age. 

"Being in the summertime, it's like, for whatever reason, people lose their minds when it gets warm," the resident said. "And then you have disregard for the elderly and the babies."

Detroit police are asking for the public's help in locating the people involved. Anyone with information is asked to call Detroit police at 313-596-2260, 911 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-773-2587. Tips can also be submitted anonymously here.

Police are offering a $5,000 reward for information that moves the investigation forward.

Friday's shooting comes just a day after a drive-by shooting in Detroit that injured an 8-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl, and on the heels of countless other instances of recent gun violence impacting the city's youth.

Shaun Lewis, who has lived his whole life in the area where Friday's shooting happened, said on Saturday that he's a proponent of Detroit's curfew enforcement.

"There aren't really supposed to be any 13-year-olds walking the streets at that time anyway, if you ask me," Lewis said.

Lewis's kids were playing basketball when we spoke to him. He says he'd never let them outside of the home on his neighborhood's streets once it gets dark out. 

"It's scary. I mean, you got my kids out here playing basketball every day, so yeah, it's scary and sad at the same time," he said.

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