We never had to worry about anything like this.
We played baseball with tennis balls in the street. “The guy riding around with kids in the car with their ski masks and hoodies on, and they were apparently shooting at people,” resident Maurice Adams said. Neighbors, meanwhile, told WSVN that they saw the duo driving around with ski masks on. “I guess the man didn’t see what type of gun it was, he just shot him,” the child told WSVN. Williams told the station that a group of neighborhood kids were running around and shooting paintballs at each other.Īnother child said the group ended up in front of the home where Williams’ son was shot. The boy was hospitalized after the shooting, but was expected to recover as of Monday afternoon, WSVN reported. The youngster, who was not publicly identified, was then run over by his father’s van after being shot and losing his balance, police said. Michael Williams, 26, allegedly gave in to his son’s pleas late Sunday to take him on a paintball “drive-by shooting,” where police said the boy fired off the unlethal rounds into a crowd gathered in the front yard of an Opa-locka home, the Miami Herald reported.īut the homeowner, identified as Gregory Barns, thought the gunfire was real and that “he and his family were under attack” - leading him to return fire with a real round, striking the boy, police said. Man in critical after being shot in chest in Brooklynĥ-month-old girl killed in Chicago drive-by shootingĪ 10-year-old Miami boy was shot after his father took him on a faux drive-by shooting with a paintball gun - and a frightened homeowner returned fire with real bullets, according to authorities.
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