WAYNE COUNTY, N.C. -- Wayne County deputies are investigating after a teenager was found shot late Saturday night.

Officials received a call about the shooting on Sanderson Road just before 11.

Once deputies and EMS arrived on the scene, they found 17-year-old Carl Leroy, Jr. suffering from a gunshot wound.

Leroy died before he could be taken to the hospital.

Anyone with any information in the shooting is asked to call police.

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