Four teenage boys were arrested following a drive-by pellet-gun shooting in Seal Beach that left a 5-year-old child and a woman with minor injuries, police reported Monday.
The “random” BB gun attack happened about 5 p.m. Sunday near Electric Avenue at 12th Street, according to Seal Beach police Sgt. Michael Henderson. Paramedics treated the victims at the scene, the sergeant said.
Witness descriptions of the vehicle from which the pellet gun shots were fired led police to the teens, whose names were withheld because of their ages, Henderson said. Two of the boys are 16 years old and the other two are 17, he said.
Investigators are aware of a rash of similar BB gun attacks in Orange County dating back to April, but have not yet established if there’s a connection, Henderson said.
The most recent incident was reported just before 11:40 p.m. last Wednesday at Harbor Boulevard just north of the Garden Grove (22) Freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A woman, who was driving, and a man, who was in the passenger seat, sustained minor injuries when a pellet gun projectile hit their vehicle on the Harbor Boulevard off-ramp, the CHP reported.
Two BB gun attacks were reported in Buena Park on July 18. About 10:45 that night at 8970 Knott Ave. a man was shot in the face with a pellet gun fired from a dark, four-door compact car, Buena Park police Sgt. Bret Carter said.
Paramedics treated the man, who was taken to a hospital for further treatment of wounds to his lip and cheek, Carter said.
About 15 minutes later, another man was wounded by a pellet gun at Beach Boulevard and Franklin Street, Carter said. Again, a dark, four-door compact car pulled up to the victim, who was waiting by a bus stop, and someone fired a shot that wounded the man in the upper cheek, Carter said.
Paramedics treated that victim at the scene.
In April, Newport Beach police reported three pellet gun incidents.
–City News Service