Five Kids Shot With BB Guns On Massachusetts Playground

By Tom Knighton

Random acts of violence tend to shake people on a visceral level. We understand the violence motived by anger, revenge, hared, money, and things like that. Even if we’ve never actually considered hurting someone for any of these reasons, we understand how someone might commit violence over these things.

Yet when things are random, when they happen for no good reason, it’s even more difficult to understand.

Yeah, even when no one actually dies in the attack.

Two children were rushed to the hospital and three others were hit when they were randomly shot with BB guns while taking part in an after-school program at a playground in Lowell on Wednesday, officials said.

Officers responding to a report of students shot by a BB gun at the Greenhalgh School playground around 1:30 p.m. were told that prior to the shootings, three Asian males had been seen circling the school on bicycles — two of whom had been seen with BB guns, according to Lowell police.

An investigation determined the two shooters entered the playground and indiscriminately shot at the students.

“Oh, it’s just someone screwing around with a BB gun,” some might say, and that’s certainly possible.

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Source:: Bearing Arms