14-year-old with gunshot wound prompted lockdown at Maplewood hospital

A hospital in the east metro was briefly placed on lockdown Wednesday night when a teenager showed up with a gunshot wound.

According to the St. Paul Police Department, a 14-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the leg arrived at M Health Fairview St. John's Hospital around 8:40 p.m. He is expected to be OK.

Police initially told WCCO a 17-year-old boy was arrested in connection with the shooting, but later said the gunshot wound was self-inflicted and no arrests had been made.

Police learned the boy had been shot on the 1100 block of Supornick Lane in St. Paul.

In a statement, St. John's Hospital said "emergency locking conditions" were initiated when the 14-year-old showed up, but "there was no threat to the safety of our staff, patients, or visitors."

"Out of an abundance of caution, the hospital remained in emergency locking conditions while law enforcement conducted necessary activities related to the incident," the hospital said. "The patient has since been transferred, law enforcement has completed clearing the property, and emergency locking conditions were lifted at approximately [10 p.m.] and normal operations resumed."

The Maplewood Police Department said people "related to the victim showed up at the hospital and there was a brief disorderly altercation that was quickly resolved."