CENTRALIA — Centralia police are investigating a weekend shooting that sent a young male to the hospital with a gunshot wound.

According to police, they were dispatched around 4:15 a.m. Saturday on a report of a 15-year-old male with a gunshot wound to the lower abdomen.

The teen was initially taken by ambulance to SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in Centralia, but was later airlifted to a St. Louis area hospital for treatment.

Police are still investigating what led up to the shooting, but were unable to get information from the victim as to what happened. Reportedly there were not witnesses in the area at the time of the shooting and no reports of gunfire in the area prior to the shooting.