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March 16, 2022 – The department’s Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit took the teen into custody Wednesday and transported him to the Lubbock County Juvenile Justice Center while the investigation continues, the statement added.
It was not immediately clear whether the shooting was intentional or not. According to the Brady Center’s statistics, of the 22 children and teens who are shot every day in the U.S., two are murdered, eight are intentionally shot and survive, and eight are unintentionally shot in cases of “family fire,” or when a gun that is not properly stored or misused results in injury or death. The majority of unintentional shooting victims are boys, with the person who shot them most often being a friend or a relative, according to Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
In a similar case, Newsweek reported Tuesday a Florida teen who fatally shot his 14-year-old friend would not face any criminal charges because police ruled the shooting, which took place while the friends were playing with a gun in his home, was an accident.
