Porter County
Sheriff’s Police officers responded to a rural Kouts residence on Monday
after a 17-year-old boy was reported to have sustained a gunshot wound.
The boy is a Boone
Grove High School senior who was home alone at the time of the incident,
after his family went to Valparaiso for a short time. When his mother and
sister returned, shortly before 9 a.m., “they discovered him lying in his
bed with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound,” police said.
The boy was still
breathing and was transported by a University of Chicago Aeromedical Network
helicopter to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Ill., where his
condition was unknown, police said.
“Family members
indicated to Porter County detectives that the victim suffered from
depression,” police said. “Detectives do not believe there was any foul play
surrounding this incident.”