Mammoth teenager injured by homemade weapon
Photographer: Pinal County Sheriff's Office
Copyright 2012 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Posted: 10/15/2012
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By: Associated Press
MAMMOTH, AZ - A juvenile needed surgery after he was shot in the left hand by a homemade weapon in the small Arizona town of Mammoth.
Pinal County Sheriff's officials say the 14-year-old boy was taken to a Tucson hospital Saturday. His name hasn't been released.
Authorities say the teen and his friend built the weapon from material found on the property where one of the boys lives.
They secured a short piece of pipe in a vise and stuffed shells into one end before striking the primer end of the ammunition with a small axe.
Authorities say when one of the juveniles put a 12-gauge shotgun slug in the pipe and attempted to discharge it, the round blew up and shrapnel became lodged in the palm of one of the boys.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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