JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — An 8-year-old is recovering after a bizarre shooting on Jacksonville’s Northwest side left him wounded in the leg.
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JSO said a woman was burning items in a burn barrel not knowing two guns were inside, causing one of them to discharge. This all happened on Devonshire Boulevard.
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“An 8-year-old male that suffered a through and through gunshot wound,” JSO Sgt. Karen Dukes said.
JSO said the 8-year-old boy was shot in the leg and is expected to be okay, but the circumstances of how that child was shot is alarming.
“A woman was in her backyard with several children,” Sgt. Dukes said. “While they were cleaning the yard, they put yard waste in a burn barrel. During that fire, the boy was standing directly next to the burn barrel when he was shot.”
Police said one of the guns was partially melted and the other gun is still inside the barrel.
JSO said they’re trying to sort out how those guns got there.
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“Right now it’s very clear that the gunshot came within the barrel it’s an exit coming out of the burn barrel, Sgt. Dukes said.
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