By Associated Press - Friday, March 10, 2017

PHOENIX (AP) - The Latest on a carjacking and separate shooting (all times local):

11:05 a.m.

Phoenix police say two teenage boys are in custody and that a third suspect is being sought in a carjacking in Phoenix and subsequent shooting in Glendale.

Officer Alan Pfohl (foal) says a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old are both accused of armed robbery and that the 16-year-old also is accused of aggravated assault and other crimes.

According to police, a car was stolen at gunpoint in Phoenix early Friday morning and that a short time later a young man in a vehicle was wounded in Glendale by gunfire from the stolen car.

Phoenix police later took the two juveniles into custody but said a third person ran off.

Glendale police Officer Tiffany Smith says the shooting victim’s wounds aren’t life-threatening.

Phoenix police Lt. Wayne Dillon said the incidents appeared to be random acts of violence.

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9:10 a.m.

Phoenix and Glendale police are investigating a carjacking and a subsequent shooting that police say apparently involved the same suspects.

Police say a car was stolen at gunpoint in Phoenix early Friday morning and that a short time later a young man was wounded when someone in the stolen car fired shots at a vehicle in Glendale.

Phoenix police later tried to stop a vehicle and the occupants fled on foot.

Glendale police Officer Tiffany Smith says the shooting victim’s wounds aren’t life-threatening.

Phoenix police Lt. Wayne Dillon said the incidents appeared to be random acts of violence.

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