A mother whose six-year-old son was shot in the head with an air pellet has said he could have been killed.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Harry Clayton was shot by thugs as he played football with his friends on Richmond Park Avenue, east Sheffield, on Wednesday afternoon.
The youngster, dripping with blood, ran home to his mother Charlotte, 36, telling her ‘something fell out of the sky’.
Nursery nurse Charlotte rushed Harry to Sheffield Children’s Hospital where doctors glued the wound and sent him home.
MANY MORE VICTIMS
But, unknown to medics and other residents of the Handsworth area of Sheffield, Harry was the first of six victims of the air rifle attackers, who have left another boy in hospital with a serious wound to his neck.
South Yorkshire Police have arrested five teenagers suspected of being the bedroom window shooters.
WHAT MOTHER SAID
Horrified mother-of-three Charlotte said: ‘That group of kids had been shooting at dogs on the Tuesday. One of my neighbours called the police but they never turned up.
‘Then on Wednesday they were at it again. Harry was playing football near a community centre with his friends when he was shot on the left hand side of his head.
‘He didn’t [know] what had happened. He came running back home.
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‘Harry was the first one to be shot, around 11.30am, the others were shot around 2.30pm, so we had no idea what was going on at that early stage.
‘I was in the shower and my eldest shouted to me ”Harry’s cut his head open”, and I quickly washed my shampoo out to see to him.
‘We didn’t know what it was at that point. Harry just said ”something fell out of the sky”. He’s only six, so I just asked him what he was talking about.
‘I spoke to his friend and he said the same thing. I thought somebody had kicked a stone because the bleeding entry wound was a circle shape.’
