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http://www.local12.com/news/local/story/Teens-Charged-In-Pellet-Gun-Pranks/6V5IJMkv9UWnZd9ZtX7PJQ.cspx
A couple of teens with a gun and a sick sense of humor are locked up tonight. There are four victims. A librarian was wounded in the stomach. Police in Madisonville say the teens told them shooting people with pellets was funny. The teen's laughter stopped on the way juvenile jail. 

Local 12 Reporter Deborah Dixon spoke today with one of the victims. 

Madisonville Citizens on Patrol were walking the neighborhood last weekend when something whizzed past her head. 

Kim Eppens, Madisonville Citizens on Patrol: "I thought what was that, then I looked over saw a guy firing at us. I'm like, we're being shot at." 

Shot at with a very real looking pellet gun, similar to this one. The volunteers went from afraid to angry. 

"How dare you shoot at me? We're out here trying to make the community safe and better."
 
That's exactly what Lt. Colonel James Whalen thought. 

Lt. Col. James Whalen, Cincinnati Police: "Kind of a prank, just not funny. I don't tolerate anyone messing with volunteer corp." 

It turns out a 9-year-old boy was messed with, too. A neighborhood officer, looking for the pellet shooter and the teens hanging with him, went to the rec center, and found out about the pellet shooting of the boy that was not reported. 

Detective Charles Zopfi, Cincinnati Police: "He found from staff member, shot at him, chased him around the parking lot, shooting randomly and laughing at the same time." 

"Pellets at the rec center matched ones shot at a librarian that same day. She was hit in the stomach, after kicking out a teen for misbehaving." 

Nicknames led police to real names, a lineup and the arrest of two 14-year-olds.
 
"They laughed, thought it was a big joke, they kept laughing until they went to 20/20." 

They may not be laughing now. One teen faces three assault charges. 

Police say after the 14-year-olds confessed, they bragged about being quote 'thugs' who belong to a neighborhood gang. 

Officers hope spending time in juvenile detention will change their outlook on life. 


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