A 15-year-old boy was arrested Sunday after police said he stole alcohol, fired a gun and attempted a carjacking outside a Fresno supermarket.

The Fresno Police Department said officers responded at 9:23 a.m. to a robbery in progress at Vons on North Cedar Avenue.

Investigators said the teenager brandished a firearm at employees, then tried to carjack a vehicle in the parking lot.

Witnesses told officers the suspect fired a shot at the vehicle, which was able to drive away. The boy then ran into a nearby residential neighborhood.

A Fresno police sergeant who was in the parking lot at the time immediately responded, and additional officers quickly located the suspect.

Police said he was safely detained, and a firearm was recovered nearby.

The juvenile was booked into the Fresno County Juvenile Justice Campus.

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