A 15-year-old boy has been shot with an airgun.
The youth was left bleeding after being struck by a pellet close to the playing field in Cranfield Park Road, Wickford.
The incident is being treated as assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
An Essex Police spokesman was unable to confirm how badly the boy was injured, where on the body he was shot, or whether any arrests have been made.
Published Thursday January 29, 2004
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