ambulance he was crying real hard. reporter: a chilling sight following what investigators describe as a tragic accident it happened a little before 4:00 from skyfox you can see two bicycles in the driveway. was it a rifle or handgun? at this point it s a handgun. but we re going to investigate. reporter: d.a. tim cruz tells fox 25 two 11-year-old boys were playing with the hanged gun when it went off striking one of the boys in the face. crews declined to say if the boy mistakenly shot himself or if his friend accidentally pulled the trigger. it s early at this point i would say it s fair to say we believe there was not intentionally somebody did not try to intentionally hurt somebody. reporter: cruz says he s unaware if any adults were in the home when the shooting happened. according to neighbors one of the boy s involved in the shooting lives in the home the same street. certainly a serious situation. it s a tragic situation. i just don t think there shoul
it was a rifle or handgun? at this point it s handgun. but we re going to investigate everything. reporter: plymouth county d.a. tim cruz tells fox 25 two 11-year-old boys were playing with the handgun when it went off striking one of the boys in the face. cruz declined to say if the boy mistakenly shot him or if his friend accidentally pulled the trigger. it s early at point i would somebody did not intentionally try to hurt somebody. according to neighbors one of the boys involved in the shooting lives in the home the other a few houses away on the same street. certainly a serious calling and tragic situation. i just don t think there should be they are going to be locked up somewhere so they can t get them and in statement from the abington superintendent of schools. it reads in part tonight s move of a student suffering a gunshot wound in their neighborhood after school is heartbreaking and sad. our sincerest thoughts and prayers are with him and his famil
reporter: beverly mccollough still shaken by what she witnessed this afternoon at the home right next to hers. they put him in the ambulance he was crying real hard. reporter: a chilling sight following what investigators describe as a tragic accident it happened a little before 4:00 from skyfox you can see two bicy was it a rifle or handgun? at this point it s a handgun. but we re going to investigate. reporter: plymouth county d.a. tim cruz tells fox 25 two 11-year-old boys were playing with the hanged gun when it went off striking one of the boys in the face. crews declined to say if the boy mistakenly shot himself or if his friend accidentally pulled the trigger. it s early at this point i would say it s fair to say we believe there was not hurt somebody. reporter: cruz says he s unaware if any adults were in the home when the shooting happened. according to neighbors one of the boy s involved in the shooting lives in the home another a few houses away on
coverage starts right now. this is the fox25 morning news. gene: good morning, everybody, thursday morning, september 1. a brand-new month. let s make it a good one. i am gene lavanchy. sara: and i am sara underwood. a cooler day to start off the month of september, and happening right now in florida, a tropical storm is making a beeline for florida, and is growing stronger hour by hour. rain and lightning has already hit parts of tampa north to tallahassee. dozens of counties have states of emergency in place as forecasters warn it could become a hurricane before landfall tonight or early tomorrow morning. meteorologist sarah wroblewski is in the fox25 storm tracker weather center with a look at the forecast and how the tropical storm, sara, could affect our holiday weekend. sarah: we will have to watch the track very closely, sara, because could be impacts into labor day. the impacts greatest across there are hurricane warnings in place for tropical storm hermine that
meteorologist sarah wroblewski is with a look at our forecast and how this tropical storm could affect our holiday weekend. reporter: the current storm path will continue to push it to the north and northeast and that is the movement it has right nows a it is well in the gulf of mexico and it is forecast to make landfall later on tonight as a category 1 hurricane. the wind speeds are tropical storm force at 60 miles per hour. and the outer bands already pushing into the panhandle and the winds will hour. there is a hurricane warning for parts of the coast. tropical storm warnings too. i will talk about the rain falling across our region coming up in a few minutes. a check of your traffic with julie. julie: traffic or lack thereof the morning. things moving along route 1 and 93 south. south of the pike, the expressway starting to see slightly more volume, but nothing major yet, and nothing slowing you down on the pike to the tobin. already in our first drive time on the