WATERLOO - Waterloo police arrested a teenager after he turned himself in for allegedly shooting another teenager in the 100 block Lincoln Street on Tuesday.

Lloyd James Allen, 16, is accused of shooting Raheem Sir Dimond Scott.

Officers had been looking for Allen since the incident occurred. The arrest was made without incident. Allen is charged with willful injury, going armed with intent and intimidation with a dangerous weapon. Allen is being held in the Black Hawk County Jail on a $90,000 bond.

Scott was shot on the same day city leaders made a public appeal for an end to the recent surge of violence in Waterloo.

Police arrived on the scene at Logan Avenue between Chestnut and Lincoln streets just before 3 p.m. to investigate a report of a man with a gunshot wound.

Scott, 15, suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and was taken by ambulance to Allen Hospital. Police say the injuries are not life-threatening.

Residents in the neighborhood said they heard fighting followed by gun shots. One couple, who asked not to be identified, said at least one bullet struck their home on Lincoln Street. They said two children were inside the home at the time. Police inspected the siding of the family's home for bullets.

Matthew Duhl, an independent contractor who was working on a construction site on Utica Street about a block west of the shooting scene, said he heard shouting followed by three to four gun shots.

"We heard a few gun shots and then saw a group of kids run across the park," he said pointing to the green space next to the former Longfellow Elementary School.

Duhl described the four as young black men.

Pam Harn-Spaulding, who lives at 129 Lincoln St., said she was outside and also heard the melee and three shots.

"I heard an exchange of words. Then I heard pop, pop, pop," she said.

Harn-Spaulding said she saw a car leave the scene headed west toward the old school and a blue minivan headed east toward Logan Avenue.

The shooting followed a public press conference in which Mayor Tim Hurley and Police Chief Thomas Jennings expressed frustration over a recent spike in shootings. Some residents of the neighborhood shared the frustration but directed it back toward city officials and police for not doing enough.