An 11-year-old boy in England was shot in the head after climbing a fence to recover a ball.
Police announced on Thursday, May 23, that the incident happened on the evening of Monday, May 20, as the boy was playing with friends in a backyard in Leyland, Lancashire.
According to a press release from the Lancashire Police, after the football (or soccer ball in America) went over the fence, the pre-teen climbed over it and “was hit in the head by a metal pellet fired from what is thought to be an air weapon.”
A neighbor recalled hearing “commotion in the road” after the incident occurred in a conversation with The Telegraph.
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“I heard that the boy’s mother had gone to a friend’s house to get help and it was her who dialled 999. The friend told me the boy had been shot in the head with a BB gun,” she said. “I can’t understand…
