Overview
- Prosecutors charged a 15-year-old on Thursday and placed him under judicial supervision in a youth facility run by child protection services.
- A 13-year-old was found shot in a back room of a grocery on Monday in Villefranche-sur-Saône’s Belleroche center and died despite resuscitation attempts.
- Police initially arrested four minors aged 12 to 16 and the 44-year-old store manager, then released all but the suspected shooter as the case moved to the Lyon prosecutor’s office.
- Investigators have not recovered the firearm and are probing how a gun reached the teenagers, while relatives and neighbors describe a possible accidental discharge among friends.
- The local police station has taken over from Lyon’s organized crime division, and French procedure means a ‘mise en examen’ is a formal step by an investigating judge that opens a deeper criminal inquiry.