Teen Arrested After a Guard Shot Breaking up a Fight Outside a New York High School Football Game

Teen Arrested After a Guard Shot Breaking up a Fight Outside a New York High School Football Game
A police officer in a file photograph in New York. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
The Associated Press
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UTICA, N.Y.—A 16-year-old was arrested for shooting a school security guard who was breaking up a fight outside a high school football game in central New York, police said.

The security guard was shot in the back of the head Saturday afternoon outside Proctor High School in Utica. He was was hospitalized in critical but stable condition and was expected to make a full recovery, city police said in statements this weekend.