The 14-year-old boy who was shot in Rishon Lezion on Sunday while playing with a handgun with his friends has died, Hebrew media reports.
The teen is identified in the reports as Uri Portal.
Police suspect that Portal and two of his friends, one aged 13 and one aged 16, were playing with a firearm belonging to the 16-year-old’s father. According to the initial investigation, the teens fired several bullets, and one of them hit Portal in the chest, fatally wounding him.
He was taken to Wolfson Medical Center in Holon in critical condition, where he died of his wounds.
The two teens involved in the incident were detained for questioning on Sunday, and the father of the 16-year-old, who was abroad at the time of the incident, will be questioned upon his return to Israel as well.
The 13-year-old was holding the gun at the time of the shooting, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
The two boys are expected to be charged with negligent homicide, the report adds, but due to their age, they will likely be sentenced to a rehabilitation program, rather than prison.
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