Six-year-old Westmoreland boy shot dead, search on for alleged teen killer
Published:Tuesday | May 18, 2021 | 1:36 AM
The Westmoreland police are searching for a 15 year-old boy, who is alleged to have shot and killed a six-year-old student on a Darling Street, Savanna-la-mar home on Monday afternoon.
The police say about 3:30 p.m, the boys were inside a yard when the teen used a firearm to shoot the infant in his upper body.
Frightened relatives in the yard rushed the wounded child to the Savanna-la-mar hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The 15-year-old boy fled the scene.
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