A 10-year-old boy playing paintball shot at a house and was hit by a live shot in response. Upon impact, the boy lost his balance and was run over by his father’s vehicle.
10-year-old shoots paint at a house and gets a real bullet in return
Thinking his home was under attack, a Florida homeowner shot and wounded the 10-year-old boy.
A Florida man who believed his house was being shot up shot and wounded a 10-year-old boy whose father had driven him to the scene to shoot him as a prank with a paintball gun.
The boy’s father, identified as Michael Williams, 26, told police in Opa-locka, 15 miles north of Miami, that his son had asked him to drive past a house where some youths were gathered Sunday night so he could shoot his paintball gun out the vehicle window.
Williams agreed to drive past the house in his pickup truck, and his son fired several shots from the toy gun.
But the homeowner mistook the paintballs for actual gunfire and thought his family was under attack.
He fired his gun once and the shot hit the child.
Upon impact, the child lost his balance and was run over by his father’s vehicle.
Details about the child’s injuries or health condition are unknown. After being shot, his father took him home, where his mother called 911 and he was subsequently treated.
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The Miami Herald newspaper reported that the father has been charged with child neglect resulting in serious bodily injury.
According to a police report, Williams “acted recklessly in agreeing to shoot paintballs from a vehicle.”
The boy’s father will remain charged with negligence for agreeing to take his son to a house where paintball was apparently being played and to shoot from his car.
