Police: Boy Randomly Shoots Elementary Students With Pellet Gun
POSTED: Tuesday, October 31, 2006
UPDATED: 2:59 am EST November 1,
2006
A boy in Melbourne, Fla., was taken into custody Tuesday after he shot and injured six elementary school students with a pellet gun as they waited at a school bus stop, according to police.Investigators said a group of Sabal Elementary School students was waiting for a school bus on Temple Terrace Road off Aurora Road in Melbourne when a 12-year-old boy walked up and opened fire on the children.Six students were hit and many of them had welts on their body from the pellets, Local 6 News reported."One girl was hit in her forehead, dangerously close to her eye," Local 6's Jamie Guirola said. "All of the children waiting for the bus said the 13-year-old boy just whipped out a gun and randomly shot at them."When the teen was taken into police custody, he said he was just "messing with" the students, Local 6 News reported."They (pellet guns) are not something lightly, and you just can't say that it would not cause harm to anybody," Melbourne police spokesman Jim Gibbens said.None of the shot students were seriously injured.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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