SAN ANTONIO – A teenage boy was rushed to University Hospital in critical condition Tuesday morning after being shot in the head in what appears to be an accidental shooting at the hands of his teenage cousin.
San Antonio police were called to the Garden Valley Mobile Home Park in the 8600 block of South Zarzamora Street around 11:35 a.m., said SAPD spokesman Sgt. Matthew Brown.
One of the teens had been showing the other a handgun when he told police he had an “accidental discharge,” Brown said.
Another SAPD officer at the scene, Sgt. Darryl Rooks, said he did not know exactly how the shooting happened, “but it sounds like -- from the little bit of information we do have -- is that they may have been playing with it.”
Rooks said the teens were cousins and both are 15 years old. At the time, they were in a home with four other juveniles, ages 5, 7, 11, and 16.
Police are investigating the shooting and trying to determine where the teens got the gun.
Possible charges could “range quite a bit” for the teen, Rooks said, and “there’s the other potential charge of how the firearm got into the hands of the minors. So we’ll be looking at that, too.”
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