KAWASAKI -- A 74-year-old man who shot a 6-year-old boy in the head with a BB gun after the boy ignored his warning not to play on the street has been arrested, law enforcers said.
The man, Yutaka Seki, was arrested on suspicion of inflicting injuries on the 6-year-old in the incident in Kawasaki-ku on Sunday.
Police said that Seki fired a shot at the boy, a first-year elementary school student, on a road near his home in Kawasaki at about 4 p.m. on Sunday. The plastic BB pellet hit the right side of the boy's head, leaving him with injuries that were expected to take about two days to heal.
Immediately beforehand, the boy was playing with three other children including his older sister, sounding the horn of their father's vehicle. When Seki told them off, telling them not to play in the street, the boy reportedly told him to shut up.
Infuriated, Seki went back into his home and brought out a BB gun, and when the boy returned to the area, Seki fired the shot at him, police said.
The boy told his father, who was at home, about the shooting, and the father and the boy accompanied Seki to a local police box, where they reported the incident.
~From Mainichi Daily News
1 comment:
I remember a bb gun story like this..where a man shot a child in the ass. Interesting. Well, maybe he was just too old to beat him like we do our children here. I'm so desensitized to violence.
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