Teen Shoots Friend In Face At Paulding Park: Police

LATEST UPDATE: Police Identify Paulding Teen Who Shot Best Friend

PAULDING COUNTY, GA - Police say a Paulding County 16-year-old remains in an induced coma at Kennestone Hospital after his best friend shot him in the face.

The 18-year-old shooter has been charged with reckless conduct, pointing a gun at another and making a false police report after shooting his friend at Sara Babb Park Wednesday, Dallas police Chief Joe Duvall told Patch. The teen's name has not yet been released.

The first call to 911, made by the shooter, described an active shooter hiding in the woods causing him to be charged with making a false report. As a result, Duvall said, that children were evacuated from a school day care and put on a bus home. Others, from the pool area, were temporarily sheltered in a nearby building.

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The two teens were parked in an SUV in a gravel parking lot, near the swimming pool, when the shooting happened.

Duvall said the two teens were target shooting earlier that day and that the 18-year-old had the gun in the SUV when they came to the park. Duvall said the gun apparently belonged to the teen's father.

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