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04/03/2005
Two-year-old boy dies following airgun shooting
A two-year-old boy has died after being shot in the head with an airgun pellet.
Andrew Morton was hit on the head by a pellet from an airgun in Cambusdoon Road in Glasgow on Wednesday night.
He had been out walking with his brother when he was hit. Doctors treating the boy said that the pellet had lodged so far into the boy's brain that it could not be removed.
A firefighter, who had been attending a kitchen fire at a house in the street, was also struck by a pellet, although he was uninjured.
It has been announced that a 27-year-old man has been arrested following a major inquiry into the airgun shootings, involving around 40 police officers and a ballistics expert.
He is expected to appear at Glasgow Sherriff Court on Monday.
(KMcA/SP)
Andrew Morton was hit on the head by a pellet from an airgun in Cambusdoon Road in Glasgow on Wednesday night.
He had been out walking with his brother when he was hit. Doctors treating the boy said that the pellet had lodged so far into the boy's brain that it could not be removed.
A firefighter, who had been attending a kitchen fire at a house in the street, was also struck by a pellet, although he was uninjured.
It has been announced that a 27-year-old man has been arrested following a major inquiry into the airgun shootings, involving around 40 police officers and a ballistics expert.
He is expected to appear at Glasgow Sherriff Court on Monday.
(KMcA/SP)
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