ONTARIO, Calif. (KABC) — A 12-year-old boy was shot in the head by a stray bullet when a violent argument between two men ended in gunfire at a park in Ontario.
The incident happened Friday at Veterans Memorial Park as the boy was leaving an after-school program, according to the Ontario Police Department.
That’s when two men got into a verbal altercation in the parking lot. Both of them pulled out guns and exchanged gunfire, striking the victim who was sitting in the backseat of his family’s vehicle nearby, police said.
“And the first thing I noticed was this guy going to his car, opening the trunk, pulling a gun, because he had it hidden in the upper side of his body, and he clicked it and started shooting,” the victim’s mother said in an interview with Eyewitness News Reporter Rob McMillan. “That’s when my husband said he saw the glass shatter, and my …