update: Police have a person of interest in the shooting death of Brandon Spangler, 17, of Flushing, Michigan. Officers say Spangler was visiting his father.
Spangler, his three siblings and father were playing paintball in a wooded area when shots were fired. Spangler was hit in the shoulder.
Police say Jason Bagley, 41, fired the shots. He owns the land where the teen and his family were playing. Bagley told investigators he thought he was shooting at coyotes.
Bagley admits he had previously given the family permission to be on the property, but did not realize they were playing paintball on Friday.
Original:
Police are investigating after a teenage boy was shot in a wooded area in Shelby County Friday afternoon.
Officers were dispatched to the 3100 block of South County Road 550 West around 12:16 p.m.
DNR Lt. William Brown told Fox59 a father and his four children were playing paintball in the wooded area when gunshots were fired. Witnesses said gunshots were fired from a nearby home.
Brown said one of the children, a teenage boy, was struck in the shoulder. He was later pronounced dead by the deputy coroner.
The father and the surviving children were taken to Major Hospital in Shelbyville for observation.
Police believe the home where shots were fired from belongs to the property’s owners. Police continue to investigate.
