Chandigarh: Three juvenile gunmen on a motorcycle fired at a group of minors in Chandigarh’s Sector-22 late Thursday night, killing one of them and critically injuring the other. An autorickshaw driver was also injured.SSP Kanwardeep Kaur said everyone involved — victims and shooters — are school students. Three suspects were detained less than an hour after the shooting, said the SSP. The deceased was identified as 17-year-old Naitik, a resident of Sector 22.According to police, both groups earlier studied in the same school but the victims had recently joined a school in Sector-32. The two groups brawled in Sector 34 around 10.15pm. Some of them took videos of the bashed up boys and put it on Instagram to humiliate them.The ones who ended up facing the brunt of the fistfight returned armed with pistols and went looking for the other group. They found some of them driving home in an autorickshaw around 11.15pm, and chased them through traffic, say police.At Sector 22, the trio caught up with the auto and started shooting at the boys at point-blank range just outside a temple. Devotees and passersby scattered in panic and the gunmen sped away amid the chaos. Two teenagers and the auto driver lay slumped, struck by bullets.A police patrol rushed to the spot and took the duo to PGIMER, where one of them died. He had been shot in the chest.Police cordoned off the area and collected forensic evidence. Checkpoints were set up and police teams fanned out looking for the assailants. Around midnight, police rounded up three suspects. An old rivalry is believed to have triggered the violence.
