GRANITE FALLS -- A 15-year-old from Granite Falls died Sunday after being shot in the chest.
The youth's name is not being released until all his relatives have been notified.
The Yellow Medicine County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, requesting an ambulance for a gunshot victim at a rural Granite Falls home. When ambulance personnel and deputies from Yellow Medicine and Chippewa counties, arrived, the victim was dead.
Authorities said he died from a single gunshot wound to the chest. No foul play is suspected, but an autopsy will be conducted by the Ramsey County medical examiner.
The Yellow Medicine County Sheriff's Office and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension are investigating.
