8-year-old dead from a BB gun bullet; shot while playing near his home

Accident
An 8-year-old North Carolina boy died after he was hit in the chest with a BB gun bullet. Citing a statement from the Alexander County Sheriff’s Office, the Greensboro News & Record reports that an unidentified 8-year-old boy went into cardiac arrest after he was struck by “a single shot from a BB or pellet …