AURORA | A 17-year-old boy told police two people on a motorcycle tailed him while he was driving in his car late Wednesday in west-central Aurora, eventually shooting at him and injuring him, according to Aurora police.

The boy said he was driving in the area of South Peoria Street near East Louisiana Avenue at about 11 p.m. when the shooting occured. 

“The victim told officers that two people were on a motorcycle and appeared to be following him,” Aurora police spokesperson Agent Matt Longshore said in a statement. “The victim said that one of the persons riding on a motorcycle shot him.”

The boy was taken to a local hospital and treated for what police described as serious injuries.

“Detectives are following up on leads but have not yet made any arrests,” Longshore said.

15 replies on “Boy, 17, driving in Aurora shot by motorcyclists late Wednesday”

  1. When is the government and police going to do something about the basically DAILY shootings in Aurora? Every day I look at this site and another person, another kid, has been shot. Every week I hear gunshots. Every article “police have no leads”, “police have not made arrest” “suspect at large” – what are these people (APD) doing all day????

    1. A crime takes places – there are no other people around except the people involved. There are no cameras. Police can’t be everywhere 24/7. Nobody that knows anything wants to talk due to retaliation from the suspects —- WHAT THE HELL ARE THE POLICE SUPPOSED TO DO????

      2. they are literally printing billions of dollars a month to secure other countries. Yet they aren’t trying to do anything to attract more police or security measures. Don’t act like there isn’t anything that could possibly done to make a city safer and that this should just be the new normal.

      3. The vast majority of shootings happen within a few small geographic pockets of Aurora. Maybe instead of standing around grocery stores they could do and ACTUALLY DO SOME POLICING of these shooting hot spots, even if they have to monitor them 24/7. This is literally their only job.

        1. Your solutions are misguided and too simplistic;
          Making a show of a “police presence” by driving around the “pockets” where shootings happen most frequently is only going to move the gun toting lowlifes to another area. And policing hot spots is far from their only job; responding to plethora of other crimes like car theft, domestic violence, armed robberies, stabbings, other physical assaults, etc… takes up most of their time. The officers you see in stores are most often off-duty and being paid to be there by the owners (and ultimately, you and I) to discourage the brazen shoplifting that is common today.

    2. Has it occurredt you that the problem is all the guns on the streets, not the police who can’t be everywhere at once? What would you have them do?

      1. The problem is not the guns nor the motorcycle. The problem is people intentionally committing violent acts.

      2. The criminal underworld is always going to get access to firearms (any kind of firearm). If you want to get the guns off the streets, then you need to also get the criminals off the streets, but our Liberal politicians don’t want to do that. They keep burying their heads in the sand by coddling the communities that protect these criminals. I’m hoping the new Police Chief will bring back respect to APD and make Aurora a city where Police want to work. More police, greater likelihood of getting criminals off our streets.

  2. guarding the interests of some of our multi-billion$$$ grocery stores in aurora that’s what APD does nowadays!!!!

  3. they don’t seem to be doing much policing our streets, i tend to see APD officers guarding king soopers stores.

  4. Am I missing something here?

    I don’t remember hearing about any shooting from a motorcycle before in Aurora or even the USA. I thought that was something they did in the cartels and gangs in South America. Could this be related to our new immigrants?

    Commenters saying anything about the APD and guarding grocery stores are naive and uninformed. They are paid to do this as a secondary job.

    When our Aurora citizens realize we need to begin to jail criminal’s, no matter what their age, these shootings will continue. Parents of the children who shoot others have failed us all with their lack of parenting skills. Let us now take their kids away and jail them as home life for them isn’t working.

    1. their secondary job should be overtime at APD. and we don’t know who’s doing these shootings kids or grown-ups it has to stop!!

  5. What did the 17-year-oldriver do to inspire someone to shoot at him?
    Wife and I have a dash cam in our cars – for whatever good that wouldo.
    Also a camera at front and back porches, buthat may not be much good for vehicles on the street.
    Police cannot be everywhere. If police were present, the criminalikely would have shot somewherelse.
    Wife and I take a firearm in our vehicles in case of thextremely unlikely need for self defense.

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