Suspected pellet gun shooter denies he intentionally tried to hit boy.

BRADY TWP — A Slippery Rock teenager admitted that he fired a pellet gun toward a group of children but that he did not deliberately try to hit anyone, state police said.

A 5-year-old boy, however, was struck in the arm May 12 while attending a birthday party at the home in Brady Township and required hospital treatment.

Police on Tuesday charged Christopher B. Carr, 18, with misdemeanor counts of simple assault and reckless endangerment, and a summary count of discharging an air rifle in a public place.

Police on May 13 spoke to Carr, who acknowledged he was shooting pellet guns with three other boys.

He said that about 4:30 p.m. before leaving for work he fired a single round with a scoped pellet gun toward a group of children across the street.

He told police that he “saw them in the scope and fired over their heads,” documents said, but did not intentionally try to hit the children.

“Carr further said he was not aware he injured someone,” according to a police affidavit, “and apologized for his actions.”

A full story will appear in the Butler Eagle.