Shots fired near Detroit school days after 7 hurt

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DETROIT (AP) — Shots were fired Thursday morning near a school on Detroit's west side, just two days after seven teenagers were shot and wounded as they waited nearby for a public bus, authorities said.

Shots were fired near Cody Ninth Grade Academy around 9:45 a.m. today, Detroit police spokesman Rod Liggons told The Associated Press.

No one was hit and the incident did not take place on school property, he said.

Police are searching the scene, Liggons said. Detroit Public Schools spokesman Steve Wasko said police told him the incident involved someone in a black Ford Taurus, but he had no more information

Seven teenagers including five students at the academy were shot Tuesday at a bus stop nearby after summer-school classes let out. Several were critically wounded.

About an hour before today's shooting, Mayor Dave Bing met with two of the wounded teens, urging Detroit residents to get involved to help stem violence throughout the city.

"Looking at the two young people, it hurts," Bing told reporters after the meeting, saying his office was to meet later today with the top federal prosecutor in Detroit on a strategy to fight crime. A plan will be in place before fall classes start, Bing said.

Associated Press writers Jeff Karoub and Ben Leubsdorf contributed to this report.