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Teen Killed by Toy Cannon

Replica cannon held shot, fired accidentally
By Mark Russell,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 25, 2012 2:00 AM CST
Teen Killed by Toy Cannon
A toy cannon killed a 14-year-old boy in Utah after it accidentally discharged and hit him in the face.   (Shutterstock)

A 14-year-old Utah boy playing with a small replica of an 18th-century cannon was killed Monday when the toy accidentally fired and struck him in the face, reports the New York Daily News. The cannon may be a toy, but it can hold a 0.50-caliber round and black powder charge. A friend of the boy said they often filled the cannon with black powder and tinfoil cannonballs. But on Monday morning, the boy was looking down the cannon's 6-inch barrel when it discharged. "It was an accident that shouldn't have happened," says the boy's grandmother. "It was just a toy." (More Utah stories.)

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