DELAND, Fla. — Police in DeLand were investigating Wednesday the circumstances surrounding a 5-year-old boy who was shot in the head with a pellet gun.
The shooting was reported at about 3:15 p.m. by the boy’s mother, who told 911 dispatchers that he wasn’t breathing.
Initially, the boy’s mother said she thought he’d been hit in the head with a concrete block, the DeLand Police Department said.
It was determined later that a group of juveniles were playing with a pellet gun in the 700 block of East Carolina Avenue when the 5-year-old was shot, investigators said.
The boy was taken to Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando where he was treated for head trauma, police said.
He was listed in critical but stable condition, officials said.
The incident remains under investigation.