A 16-year-old boy was shot in the arm Sunday after a house party in the Otay Mesa West neighborhood, police said.
The shooting happened at 12:30 a.m. Sunday in the 3700 block of Palm Avenue, said Officer Robert Heims of the San Diego Police Department.
A party broke up and as people were leaving, a group of people got into an argument, the officer said.
"At some point, a suspect fired several rounds and a 16-year-old male victim was shot in the arm," Heims said.
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The victim was taken to a hospital with injuries not considered to be life-threatening.
The resident of the home, Juan Perez, spoke to NBC 7. "I don't know what was going on but someone came here and -- pop pop pop – shot one of these individuals and he was laying down here and we had to wash it up, it was all full of blood," Perez said.
Perez said he is concerned about parties in the area that end in violence. There has been an uptick in some violent crimes, according to the Chula Vista Police Department.
This comes as a teen was stabbed to death at a party in mid-November.
No suspect descriptions were available. Detectives from the SDPD's Southern Division were investigating the shooting.
