Police and family members searched for answers the day after an officer shot a 15-year-old whom he mistakenly thought was driving a stolen car.

A 15-year-old boy is in critical condition after he was shot by a Fort Lauderdale police officer during the pursuit of a vehicle thought to be stolen but later determined to be a different car.

Dwuan Crooms is connected to a ventilator at Broward General Medical Center. His uncle, a Plantation firefighter, said Crooms has a collapsed lung and kidney, liver damage and internal bleeding.

"We haven't really heard the whole story yet," uncle Shaun Sands said. "We've heard bits and pieces here and there." Crooms, a student at William Dandy Middle School, was shot on Interstate 95 late Friday night after what police said was a violent struggle with the teenager.

"There had been reports that the suspect was shot in the back and I must stress to you that this information is also inaccurate," Fort Lauderdale police Sgt. Frank Sousa said at a news conference. "At this point in the investigation, we can confirm that the shot entered the top of the suspect's shoulder area, not in the back."