02-02-2018, 05:53 PM
The 15-year-old boy who was hit in the head with a bullet was initially in critical condition, though a doctor treating the boy said he expected him to make a full recovery.
The wrist wound to the 15-year-old girl was considered minor. Three others had superficial face or head injuries, some from broken glass.
Most accidental shootings involve someone actually handling firearms, as opposed to guns getting dropped, said Pete Gagliardi, a former longtime agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. "It's pretty rare to hear about an incident like this," Gagliardi said of Thursday's shooting.
He said the gun wouldn't necessarily had to have been cocked to go off in the girl's backpack, but mostly likely would have had to have become entangled with something inside the bag for the trigger to have been pressed.
A strikingly similar shooting to Thursday's happened just south of Los Angeles in Gardena on Jan. 18, 2011, when a gun went off inside a 17-year-old boy's backpack after he set it on a desk, wounding two students with one bullet, including a girl who was shot in the head.
The boy was charged with bringing a gun to a school zone. A spokesman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office didn't immediately respond to a request about the outcome of his case.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/12-ye...g-52786230
The wrist wound to the 15-year-old girl was considered minor. Three others had superficial face or head injuries, some from broken glass.
Most accidental shootings involve someone actually handling firearms, as opposed to guns getting dropped, said Pete Gagliardi, a former longtime agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. "It's pretty rare to hear about an incident like this," Gagliardi said of Thursday's shooting.
He said the gun wouldn't necessarily had to have been cocked to go off in the girl's backpack, but mostly likely would have had to have become entangled with something inside the bag for the trigger to have been pressed.
A strikingly similar shooting to Thursday's happened just south of Los Angeles in Gardena on Jan. 18, 2011, when a gun went off inside a 17-year-old boy's backpack after he set it on a desk, wounding two students with one bullet, including a girl who was shot in the head.
The boy was charged with bringing a gun to a school zone. A spokesman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office didn't immediately respond to a request about the outcome of his case.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/12-ye...g-52786230