Two teenage boys are in hospital after being shot on the streets of Collingwood.
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00:00Police combing through evidence in the back streets of Collingwood in the aftermath of
00:08a shooting that's left two teens in hospital and neighbours rattled.
00:13Police were called to Veer Street around 12.30 this morning after reports of gunfire to find
00:18a group of 50 or so young people and a 17-year-old who'd been shot.
00:23He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
00:26He's now stable.
00:27A 15-year-old boy who later presented to hospital with a gunshot wound is believed to be linked
00:33to the same incident.
00:34Any incident involving a firearm is concerning but when we have children being shot and potentially
00:40shot by other children, Victoria Police, as I say, will leave no stone unturned.
00:45Uncle Des says one of the injured teens ran into his home.
00:49He said I'm shot.
00:50He come in the house, he ran in.
00:52He would have wasted a bit of blood on me, I'm not sure.
00:55It's really only luck that it's prevented two people from being killed and the fact
01:01that the homicide squad are not involved is, as I say, pure luck.
01:05Police say there'd been a brawl in the vicinity of this public housing estate close by on
01:10Hoddle Street just an hour before the violence spilled onto the streets.
01:15Police say when they arrived the large group of young people quickly dispersed.
01:19They're now looking to speak to those people to help them piece together what happened.
01:24One avenue of inquiry we will keep open and is whether it's gang related, whether there's
01:30any recent conflicts that may have occurred.
01:33Police are still searching for a motive for what they believe was a targeted attack.
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