UPDATE: IMPD confirmed Tuesday the shooting is believed to be accidental and self-inflicted.

‘INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A boy found with a gunshot wound Monday afternoon may have been accidentally shot, Indianapolis police say.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and medics were sent to a report of a person shot at 3:40 p.m. Monday in the 9100 block of Granville Court. That’s in a residential area southwest of the intersection of North Post Road and East 21st Street on the far east side of the city.

IMPD said in an email to the news media, “The juvenile victim is awake and breathing. Preliminary information suggests this was accidental; however, that has not been confirmed.”

The boy was stable, IMPD reported at 4:42 p.m. Monday.

News 8 watched a person being taken into custody at the shooting scene.

No additional information was immediately available from police.

News 8’s Danielle Zulkosky spoke with a neighbor. Ron Luellen said, “It doesn’t matter if you’re old like us or if you’re a little kid. It shouldn’t happen to a kid. They’ve got a bunch of years ahead of them.

“They keep on saying, ‘Parents lock your guns up, don’t they, and put them out of sight? They don’t listen.”