11-Year-Old Shoots, Injures 2 Teens Following Altercation at Florida Pop Warner Football Practice

11-Year-Old Shoots, Injures 2 Teens Following Altercation at Florida Pop Warner Football Practice
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The Associated Press
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APOPKA, Fla.—An 11-year-old boy retrieved a gun from an unlocked box in his mother’s vehicle and shot two 13-year-olds following an altercation that began during a Pop Warner football practice in central Florida, police said Tuesday.

The child fired one shot on Monday night, hitting one teen in the arm and the other in the torso, Apopka police Chief Mike McKinley said during a Tuesday morning news conference. He said surveillance video showed that both teens were running away from the boy when the shot was fired.