A 10-year-old boy was reportedly shot while attending “Harry Potter Night” at a minor league baseball game in Pennsylvania.
The boy was attending the promotional event for the Lehigh Valley IronPigs at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown on Saturday when he was struck by a bullet at about 6 p.m., according to The Morning Call.
He was with other youngsters dressed as Harry Potter characters when he was struck by a bullet behind his knee, the report said.
The event also featured kids playing Quidditch — the fictional Harry Potter sport where wizards and witches face off against each other on flying broomsticks.
Allentown police believe the bullet that struck the boy came from a distance — up to 2 miles away — and hit the child on its way down, the report said.
“The police officers we were speaking to last night felt pretty confident, with 99% certainty, that someone shot into the air and it was just the horrible misfortune that it landed where it did,” the team’s General Manager Kurt Landes told the paper.
IronPigs co-owner Joe Finley told The Morning Call: “It came at an 80-degree angle, came from high up in the air. That’s why they say don’t fire guns into the air. Those bullets have to come down somewhere.”
Allentown police said they are still investigating the shooting.


