Police have responded to two incidents involving BB guns in recent weeks.
PALMER – Police arrested a 14-year-old male after he shot his 14-year-old female friend seven times with a BB gun.
Lt. John J. Janulewicz said the incident happened at noon on Springfield Street in the Three Rivers section on April 20, but was not reported to police until about four hours later. The girl was taken to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, where she was treated and released. Janulewicz said the two children were friends.
The boy was charged with two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and for discharging the BB gun as a minor. The boy was held overnight at the juvenile lock-up facility in Springfield for his arraignment in Juvenile Court last week.
In another BB gun incident, police arrested 17-year-old John Seymour Jr., of 1608 No. Main St., on Thursday after he shot a BB gun at an 11-year-old boy in the area of the Pride Plaza on Thorndike Street. Seymour did not hit the boy, police said.
Seymour was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, and being a minor in possession of a BB gun, and discharging it. The incident was reported by the 11-year-old’s mother. Seymour denied charges in Palmer District Court on Friday.