Colorado teen shot in the face by town councilman after going to home to ask permission to take homecoming photos
A 17-year-old Colorado boy was shot in the face Tuesday by a town council member after he and a friend went to a home to ask permission to take homecoming photos on the property, police said.
A 17-year-old Colorado boy was shot in the face Tuesday by a town council member after he and a friend went to a home to ask permission to take homecoming photos on the property, police said.
The shooting happened around 4:15 p.m. at a home on Pleasant Park Road in Jefferson County, the sheriff's office said.
When deputies arrived, the 17-year-old was "bleeding heavily from his face, as a second juvenile applied pressure to his friend's wounds with a t-shirt," the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Wednesday. The teen is recovering.
Brent Metz, the boyfriend of a woman who lives at the home, was arrested in connection with the shooting. Metz, 38, is a council member for the town of Mountain View, according to NBC affiliate KUSA of Denver . The town administrator declined to comment to NBC News on Thursday.
Metz was booked on charges of first-degree assault, felony menacing, illegal discharge of a firearm and reckless endangerment. It was not clear whether he has an attorney.
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