UPDATED: 05/25/17 - DeLand PD Investigating After 5-Year-Old Shot In Head With Pellet Gun

Date Added: May 24, 2017 4:33 pm

Chris Graham
Community Information Specialist
grahamc@deland.org
Office: 386-626-7117
Cell: 386-872-0821

UPDATE: 05/25/17 - 9:17 a.m.

As of this morning, the boy is in critical but stable condition.

The reports are available and the 911 calls are slso available through the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.

The incident remains under investigation.

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DELAND POLICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATING AFTER 5-YEAR-OLD SHOT IN HEAD WITH PELLET GUN

Authorities are investigating circumstances that led to a 5-year-old boy shot in the head with a pellet gun Wednesday afternoon around 3:15 p.m.

DeLand Police were alerted after the boy’s mother called 9-1-1 to say he was not breathing and had apparently been hit in the head by a concrete block. But a preliminary investigation revealed a group of juveniles were playing with a pellet gun in the 700 block of East Carolina Avenue when the boy was shot.

The boy suffered trauma to the head and is being transported to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando. He is reportedly in stable condition.

More information will be released as it becomes available.