🚨A 10-year-old boy was found near Birches Elementary with a gunshot wound
🚨The school was put on lockdown after the initial report
🚨A police investigation is ongoing into the boy’s death
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP (Gloucester)— A 10-year-old boy found with a gunshot wound to the head Tuesday at his home Wednesday afternoon led to a lockdown of a nearby school.
Police Chief Patrick M. Gurcsik said the nearby Birches Elementary School, which the boy attended, was on a short lockdown as law enforcement responded to a home on Westminster Boulevard around 2:35 p.m. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene.
The identity of the boy was not disclosed…