A 12-year-old boy was shot and wounded in Hartford, Conn., for hitting a car with a snowball Wednesday night, police said.
The unidentified pre-teen was horsing around and throwing snowballs in Connecticut’s capital city with an 11-year-old friend, local ABC affiliate WTNH reported.
Cops said around 7:15 p.m., a snowball struck a vehicle, which then circled the block and chased the two youngsters, with someone inside fired gunshots at them.
The 12-year-old boy was wounded and suffered non-life-threatening injuries, the Hartford Courant reported. The 11-year-old was not hit.
“He was just being a young child, throwing snowballs, and this unfortunate incident happened,” Nick Lebron, director of an after-school program the boy attended, told the Courant. “He’s a young person who was just coming home from an afterschool program and full of joy, full of hope.”
The victim was on his way home from the Catholic Charities Community Schools program at McDonough Middle School, according to the Courant. He was not identified by police.
No suspects have been identified or arrested in the case.
The shooting comes two months after a 4-month-old baby and his mom were gunned down in broad daylight in Hartford. Jessiah Mercado, 20, and her baby boy were fatally shot while stopped on a road. Lance Morales, 23, was arrested and charged with their murders.