A 16-year-old Bolingbrook male is scheduled to appear in Will County Court Feb. 27 on charges of aggravated battery involving the discharge of a firearm, attempted armed robbery without a firearm and reckless discharge of a firearm in connection with the Jan. 29 shooting of another 16-year-old male in Bolingbrook.

Will County State’s Attorney spokesman Charles Pelkie said Brandon Thompson of the 500 block of Princeton Drive is being tried in adult court because Illinois law does not allow aggravated battery to be prosecuted in juvenile court if the defendant is 15 or older.

The charges, formally approved Monday, stem from a 5:39 p.m. Jan. 29 Bolingbrook police call to the 100 block of Somerset Lane, where they found the teen victim with a gunshot wound. He reportedly told police he’d been shot behind a business on the 100 block of West Boughton Road.

Bolingbrook Police spokesman Mike Rompa said Thompson was taken into custody Saturday on the 400 block of Bolingbrook Drive and subsequently booked into the River Valley Juvenile Detention Center.

Rompa said police have no motive for the shooting, which “appears to be narcotics-related.”

Pelkie said bail was set at $250,000 and Thompson is to have no contact with the victim.