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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Marion Township, PA) An eleven-year-old boy was flown to the hospital after being shot in Marion Township on Friday. According to Beaver County District Attorney Nate Bible, two cousins, ages 11 and 14, were running around in the 14-year-old’s yard playing cops and robbers or cowboys, carrying guns they thought were inoperable, when one of the weapons fired. Specifically, the fourteen-year-old shot the eleven-year-old in the stomach on Herman Road at around 11:22 a.m. with a .22 handgun not knowing that it was loaded even though the cousins found the guns in a safe that was locked and unlocked it with a key they found and started playing with them. The boy that was shot was flown to UPMC Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh and Bible does not anticipate that charges will be filed at this time.