Police investigate after teenage boy, 16, dies in park in Brisbane

Police are investigating the circumstances of a 16-year-old boy’s death in Brisbane after he tragically died in a park.

Police at a Brisbane park where a teenager died. Picture: David Clark

A teenage boy, 16, has been found dead in a park in Brisbane’s southern suburbs on Friday evening.

Police were called to the park off Deshon St in Coorparoo about 5pm responding to reports that a boy had suffered a gunshot wound.

Police at the scene off Deshon Street in Brisbane's inner suburbs. Picture: David Clark

Queensland police confirmed to NCA NewsWire the 16-year-old died at the scene.

“We’ve established a crime a scene to establish the circumstances of his death,” the police spokesman said.