Police from Tremonton, Utah, say that a 14 year old boy is dead after he shot himself accidentally with a mini toy cannon.
abc.news reports :
Utah cops are trying to determine what triggered a tiny replica cannon to fire something into the face of a 14-year-old boy, killing him.
“We’re waiting for the autopsy,” said Joyce Hansen, administrative assistant to the chief of police inTremonton, Utah. She said it might take weeks, depending on the workload of the state medical examiner’s office in Salt Lake City.
Robby Ostberg died Monday when the replicate 18th century cannon he was holding fired accidentally, a police press release said.
According to the release, Ostberg had been playing video games with his 16-year-old brother when the cannon erupted. He was dead when police arrived, the release said.
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