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Manteca Boy Allegedly Shot In Head By Teen Dies

MANTECA (CBS13) - A Manteca boy who was reportedly shot in the head by a 17-year-old male earlier in September has died.

Eleven-year-old Hunter Davis was critically injured when the teen shot him in the head inside of a home in the early hours of Sept. 7, according to a statement from the Manteca Police Department.

Britney Massa says her brother and friends were passing around a gun inside her home when one of them fired off two rounds. One round hit the Davis in head, while the other hit his older brother in the arm.

The teen who allegedly pulled the trigger is behind bars, facing homicide charges.

"I don't think it was accidentally," said Massa, a friend of the suspect. "I think he was drunk and under the influence and didn't think there was really bullets in the gun."

Those in the neighborhood say Hunter and his brothers would knock on doors asking for food or work so they could make money.

In 2013, Hunter was left in a coma after being hit by a car.

 

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