An eight-year-old boy has tragically died overnight after he was shot on a farm.
Emergency services raced to the scene in the Warcop area of Cumbria after being called at 2.50pm yesterday.
A child had been seriously injured after being shot, sustaining ‘serious and life-threatening injuries to his head and face’.
AT THE SCENE
The gun was secured at the scene by police and the young boy was taken to hospital by air ambulance, but he sadly passed away overnight.
Officers arrested a man in his 60s at the scene on suspicion of assault GBH.
POLICE ARREST
Following the boy’s death he was re-arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.
Photos show crime scene investigators and around four police cars at the scene, with one parked on a field.
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Locals described seeing officers and paramedics ‘purposefully marching’ across the small field, just off the A66, not long after the shooting.
One resident, who asked not to be named, said: ‘When I first came across it, it was about 3pm when I was heading out towards Penrith.
‘I saw the medical emergency helicopter in the small field. There’s a level field and then a field rising quite steeply up to where the solitary police car was.
‘It must have just been called in. I think everything was happening at that time.’
