JEANNETTE, Pa. (AP) - Police say four juvenile boys have been charged with trying to forcibly enter a western Pennsylvania home, including two wounded by the man who lives there.
Jeannette police aren’t identifying the boys who are all between 13 and 16.
Police Chief Shannon Binda tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that two boys aged 13 and 16 were shot in the legs and taken to the hospital with injuries that aren’t life-threatening.
The incident happened about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday in this city about 25 miles east of Pittsburgh.
So far, police haven’t charged the 21-year-old resident who shot the teens, saying he may have had a right to defend himself under the state’s Castle Doctrine.
The teens who weren’t wounded are in a juvenile detention center.
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