A teenage boy was shot in the face Tuesday evening on a median strip between Frederick Douglass High School and Mondawmin Mall and was taken by a city Fire Department ambulance to Sinai Hospital, authorities said.

His identity and condition were not available, police said.

First reports were that a fight occurred between at least two males attending a basketball game between Douglass and Patterson about 7 p.m. and that shots were fired in the school.

Anthony Guglielmi, a city police spokesman, and Edie House Foster, a spokeswoman for the city schools, said the victim was not shot in the school but on a median strip in the 2300 block of Gwynns Fall Parkway, between the school and the mall.

Guglielmi said whoever shot the victim was seen boarding a Metro train at the mall and remains at large. He said several witnesses to the shooting were interviewed at the Western District and that two handguns were found in the mall and were being examined to determine if they were used in the shooting.

Based on the initial reports, city school police and officers from the Western, Southwestern and Northwestern police districts and Maryland Transit Administration police responded and cordoned off a large area surrounding the school and the nearby mall seeking a victim and an assailant. Buses and vehicular traffic were detoured from the area.

Moments later, police found the victim, who ran through the mall and left a large amount of blood in his wake, at the Mondawmin Mall Metro stop, bleeding from a bullet wound to the face. He was taken to the hospital by ambulance, said a Fire Department communications supervisor.