MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Dozens of people shouted at police officers and attacked reporters late Thursday after 10-year-old boy was wounded from a bullet that ricocheted from a police officer's gun, a police spokeswoman said.
The officer was shooting at a pit bull dog that had been turned loose on police who were trying to serve a search warrant on a house suspected of narcotics activity. The child, who lives at the house, was struck after the officer shot and killed the pit bull, but the bullet ricocheted off the street and struck him.
The boy wounded in the drug raid was taken to a local hospital, said police spokesman Cyndi Barrington. His wounds did not appear to be life-threatening, she said.
One person inside the house was taken into custody before the disturbance began, police said.
While the police raid occurred at 7:30 p.m., tensions throughout the suburban Minneapolis community grew later as TV news crews arrived to cover the incident.
Barrington said around 75 to 100 people gathered in the neighborhood and began to shout at police and journalists.
Windows were broken out of one news van and a city bus, the police spokeswoman said. Two reporters from the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, a photographer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and a reporter for WCCO-TV were hurt.
The Star Tribune reported that a KMSP-TV, Channel 9, news van was burned.
There were no other reports of other bystanders or police officer being injured.
