LAWRENCE, MASS. (WHDH) - Lawrence police are investigating after two girls, a 16-year-old and a 6-year-old, were shot with a BB gun on Saturday.
Officers responding to a report of teens shooting a BB gun from a porch on Hampshire Street about 6:30 p.m. found the victims injured, police said.
“I noticed when (my friend) got serious and pulled down my shirt is when I glanced at my shoulder, and I was in shock. I didn’t know what to do,” said the 16-year-old.
Her friend said: “She turned facing me, and I was like, ‘Oh, they threw a paintball at you’ because the blood (was) on her shirt looked like it was a paintball. So I lifted her shirt and saw the hole, and I said, ‘Somebody shot you.'”
The 6-year-old girl was treated at the scene and taken by ambulance to Lawrence General Hospital before being transferred to a Boston hospital.
The incident remains under investigation by the Lawrence Police Department.
Anyone with information is asked to call Lawrence police.
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