11-Year-Old Shot In Head After Hopping Fence To Retrieve Ball -- And In A Shocking Twist, The Shooter Is ANOTHER CHILD!
24.05.2024 - 23:55
/ perezhilton.com
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An 11-year-old boy in a small town in England was shot in the head, apparently after he tried to climb over a fence to retrieve his soccer ball from a neighbor’s yard.
The incident occurred on Monday evening in the city of Leyland, a mid-sized town in the northwestern English region of Lancashire. The unnamed boy and his friends had been kicking around a soccer ball in a backyard there when one of them accidentally kicked it over the fence. As boys do, the pre-teen hopped the fence to retrieve the ball — and he was shot!!
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Per a press release sent out by the Lancashire Police, as the boy climbed over the fence, he “was hit in the head by a metal pellet fired from what is thought to be an air weapon.”
OMG!!
According to the Telegraph, a neighbor heard a “commotion in the road” at the time of the shooting. That witness recounted:
Lancashire cops noted that they immediately carried out “a number of inquiries to try and identify the person or persons responsible.” Quickly, the investigation led them to ANOTHER MINOR!! The department revealed:
Wow…
As for the 11-year-old victim, he is thankfully alive, but his injuries are severe. Per People, he was rushed to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in nearby Liverpool and taken into surgery to treat a fractured skull. Detective Constable Paul Brown stated:
Another local detective, Inspector Paul Mulrooney, added:
Well, that’s good to hear at least. How unnecessarily close to tragedy! We send all of our well wishes to the boy as he recovers.
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