An off-duty correctional officer shot and wounded a 15-year-old who was part of a group of juveniles that tried to rob him with a toy gun, city police said. Shortly after midnight Monday, the correctional officer, who works at the Central Booking and Intake Center, was waiting for a food order at Wo Hing carryout in the 1600 block of W. North Ave. when three juveniles tried to rob him, according to Anthony Guglielmi, a Baltimore police spokesman. The officer pulled out a weapon and fired two shots, striking one of them; the other two juveniles fled, Guglielmi said. The wounded boy was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was in critical condition but stable, Guglielmi said. The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, which oversees Central Booking, said in a statement that officials did not believe the officer's weapon had been issued by the state agency, but a review was under way. Both DPSCS and the Baltimore Police Department declined to release the officer's name.

Gus G. Sentementes