COLUMBUS, Ga. >> Police have arrested two people — one just 15 years old — in connection with a shooting in a Georgia city recently near the Alabama state line that left nine children injured.

Both were arrested Friday in the Feb. 17 shooting at a gas station in Columbus in which seven teenagers and two younger children suffered gunshot wounds that were not considered life-threatening.

Police did not release the teenage suspect’s name but said he was a “validated gang member” and was taken to a youth detention center on one count of aggravated assault, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. D’Angelo Robinson Sr., 35, was booked into the Muscogee County Jail on eight counts of aggravated assault.

Police Chief Freddie Blackmon said at a news conference a day after the shooting that an altercation apparently took place at a party nearby and it spilled over to the gas station when the shooting began. Further details were not provided.

— The Associated Press