Boy, 12, injured in hunting accident on Thanksgiving

Published 12:00 am Friday, November 27, 2009

A 12-year-old boy was treated and released from the hospital after being hit in the leg with a stray shotgun pellet while hunting on Thanksgiving morning.

Keshawn Younger, 6180 Nailor Road, was hunting with family members, including his father, in a wooded area off Grange Hall Road at about 8 a.m. when the accident happened, Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said this morning.

Keshawn was downrange when a member of the hunting party took a shot at a deer and a pellet hit Keshawn.

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When Warren County deputies arrived, Keshawn’s father, Eric Younger, 38, and others were bringing the child from the wooded area to the road on an all-terrain vehicle.

Pace said the child was taken to River Region Medical Center by ambulance. Leigh White, a spokesman for the hospital, said this morning Keshawn had been treated and released.

Officials believe the shooting was accidental and did not release the name of the person who shot the gun, with Pace saying he wanted to complete the investigation first.

Deputies were working with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, and a report will be turned over to the district attorney, Pace said.

 

TV reported missing in one of two break-ins

Two burglaries were reported in Vicksburg, police officer Penny Branch said.

An Emerson 32-inch flat panel TV valued at $600 was reported stolen from a home in the 40 block of Falk Steel Road at 8:40 p.m. Thursday.

An exterior door was reported to have been kicked in at an unoccupied house in the 700 block of First North Street at 10:22 p.m. Wednesday. Nothing was reported missing.