Teen accidentally shoots himself in leg with ghost gun he brought to friend’s home in Vernon Hills

A 17-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to his leg after he was “playing around” with a ghost gun he brought to a friend’s home in Vernon Hills and it fired a bullet through his thigh, police said. The Vernon Hills Police Department and the Countryside Fire Protection District responded around 6:41 p.m. on November 6 to the 400 block of Tanglewood Court in Vernon Hills for a report of a juvenile who had shot himself in the leg. Fire department radio traffic indicated paramedics were dispatched for a penetrating trauma call and staged nearby until they were cleared to move in. Officers arrived and found the 17-year-old North Chicago boy in an upstairs bedroom of the home with a gunshot wound to his right leg, Vernon Hills Deputy Police Chief Shannon Holubetz said. Holubetz said officers saw a pistol near the teen as they gave him medical aid until paramedics arrived. Officers seized the gun and a fully loaded magazine as evidence.

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