Seattle police are investigating a shooting near the King County Youth Service Center on 12th and E Alder

Police say a teenage boy was shot in the hip during a drive-by shooting and officers are now looking for a man and a woman in a white sedan. The victim was transported to Harborview with non-life-threatening injuries.

According to King County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention spokesman Major William Hayes, the shooting took place in front of the building, and the juvenile detention center is now on lockdown.

Police and detention center staff are still gathering information about the incident, but Hayes says they have determined that the shooting victim was not someone recently released from juvenile detention. SPD gang and homicide detectives—who are typically called in for shootings—are investigating.

The age of the shooter in this morning's incident is not yet known, but yesterday, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg issued a statement about a "disturbing increase" in the number of gun crimes committed juveniles. "In all of 2008, we filed adult charges against 19 defendants aged 16 or 17 for serious, violent acts," Satterberg said in the statement, "and this year we have already filed 31 cases and we're only mid-way through August."