A 17-year-old Gary teen faces attempted murder charges.

He allegedly broke into an older woman’s car on May 7, leaving his iPhone inside.

Moments later, after she walked to her car as the car alarm blared, he demanded the phone back.

When she and her son drove off, the teen shot at her car, hitting her multiple times.

Her son was not hurt. The Post-Tribune is not identifying the alleged shooter because he is a minor.

He is charged with 10 felonies: two counts of attempted murder, attempted armed robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, attempted robbery resulting in bodily injury, attempted armed robbery, aggravated battery, battery by means of a deadly weapon, battery resulting in serious bodily injury, attempted battery by means of a deadly weapon, and auto theft.

He has not been apprehended. When arrested, he is ordered held on a $15,000 cash bond.

Gary Police responded around 9:30 p.m. May 7 at Methodist Northlake for a gunshot victim.

The victim, 63, said she was going to a Hammond Walgreens for vitamins and told her son to ride in the backseat of her black Kia Sorento.

When the car alarm went off, she found the car door left open, one of the windows shattered and the steering column broken.

As they went outside, two to three younger males were running from the car. One, the shooter, returned with a rifle and asked for the phone back several times. The woman said she ignored him and drove off.

“He could have killed me,” she told police, later adding, “for nothing.”

She was shot twice in the left abdomen, and once each in both legs.

The incident happened in the 2900 block of West 12th Avenue. Police later found multiple rifle casings on the street.

Anyone with more information can call Gary police Detective JerVean Gates at 219-881-1300.

mcolias@post-trib.com