Boys fines for other school shooting with a ball weapon in Porvoo
Trials|Three students got hits from the plastic balls during a break.
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Two sons were sentenced to fines and compensation after shooting with a plastic ball weapon in Porvoo in January 2024.
Three students got hits during the break, two close to the eyes and one in the shoulder area.
The Eastern Uusimaa District Court sentenced the boys to be a young person for assault and possession of an object suitable for harm.
Two At the time of the act, the 15-year-old boy was sentenced to fines and other compensation in the Eastern Uusimaa District Court, where they were shooting with a plastic ball weapon towards other schoolchildren in Porvoo Elementary School in January last year.
Both boys were sentenced to 40 daily fines for three assaults committed as a young person, and the possession of another object suitable for harming the object, which became EUR 240 for their income.
One of the boys brought the weapon to school and handed it up to another boy who fired. The boy who brought the weapon also loaded more plastic balls into the gun magazine and the other continued to shoot.
Three students got hits: one under the eye in the bone, the other between the eyes on the nose and the third on the shoulder area.
According to the court, the weapon seemed mistakenly right. The Criminal Laboratory of the Central Criminal Police investigated it and stated that the energy of its balls was not sufficient to permeate human skin and do not cause life when he or she hits life. But, for example, when you hit the eye, they can pose a danger.
The court held that they both shot and were the partners. According to it, they should have realized that when they are randomly shot indoors, it is likely that people may hit.
Likewise, it should have been understood that when shooting with a ball weapon, a hit may cause some injury or at least pain.
Legal described the shooting during the break as a completely indifferent.
Two hit the eyes, so there was a tangible danger of causing a significant eye injury. Therefore, the verdict came from assault. The court also takes into account the young age of the perpetrators and « obviously due to the inexhaustibility and thoughtlessness. »
A student who had a ball between the eyes said that the hit felt the same as the bone button and left a red trace.
The boys will have to pay for the pain and pain of the victims together for EUR 50 and EUR 100. They also have to pay about € 300 for one guardian's loss of earnings and one victim's legal costs of around € 700.
The court gave its judgment in February.
