Teen Shot In The Head By Possible Stray Bullet In Baltimore

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A 16-year-old lad was changeable successful the caput by an assumed stray slug successful northwest Baltimore overnight, constabulary said.

Officers responded to an country infirmary for a locomotion successful shooting victim. The teen had an evident non-life-threatening gunshot coiled to the head.

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Investigators accidental the lad was getting retired of the car with his dada astatine the 3700 artifact of Belle Avenue astir 9:30 p.m. erstwhile helium felt a crisp symptom successful the backmost of his head.

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His dada drove him to an urgent attraction center, wherever medics recovered a slug conscionable nether the tegument of his skull.

Investigators judge the teen was not the intended target.

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