Teen with fake gun who was shot by Akron officer charged
by FOX 8 Cleveland
FOX 8 Cleveland— The 15-year-old boy who was shot by an Akron police officer who thought a toy gun he was carrying was real, is now being charged.
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CBS News—5 Maryland teens shot, 2 critically injured, during water gun fight for senior skip day. Five Maryland teenagers were shot and two were critically injured during a water gun fight celebrating "senior skip day," a spokesperson for the Greenbelt Police Department told CBS News on Friday. Hundreds of teens skipped school in Prince George's County for the tradition and gathered in Bowie, Maryland, said Ricardo Dennis, the police department's public information officer. Both Bowie and county police scattered the crowd initially and about 500 students reconvened at Schrom Hills Recreation...
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