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A 9-year-old Mesa, Arizona boy was rushed to the hospital after being shot in the chest with a BE gun by his brother. The boy was alone with his siblings at the time of the accident, enjoying spring break vacation from school. Their older sister, a 14-year-old girl, was watching the four other children. The two boys, ages seven and nine, retrieved their fathers rifle-style BB gun and began playing with it.
The younger child was handling the gun at the time it discharged. He pointed it at his brother and pulled the trigger, thinking it wasn't loaded. It was, and the BB entered the boys’ chest and lodged in his lung. He started having problems breathing and began coughing up blood.
He was taken to the intensive care unit at a local hospital, and was expected to recover. Doctors left the BE in the child's lungs, fearing surgery might only make things worse.
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