Police
BB strikes teen’s eye; vision loss unlikely
By Abby Slutsky
The Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne police were called to Parkview Hospital’s emergency room Tuesday after a 16-year-old Fort Wayne boy reported being shot in the eye with a BB gun.
According to the police report, the boy was with a friend when the shooting happened just before 8 p.m.
The boy told police that his friend yelled to him from about 5 feet away and when he turned, his friend fired an air-soft gun, police said.
Both the boy and his mother told police that they thought the shooting was unintentional, police said.
According to the report, doctors told police that the BB did not puncture the boy’s eye, and as long as the swelling subsided, he would not lose vision in it.
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