The term “bulletproof vests” might be a bit of false advertising.
If you get shot in the head, it won’t matter, and secondly, there are vulnerable spots in all bulletproof vests, so you can never be 100% protected from a bullet coming your way.
This is what two teens found out the hard way.
A Florida teen was killed and two of his pals were arrested after taking turns shooting live rounds at each other while wearing armored vests, police said Friday.
Christopher Broad, 16, was found suffering from at least one gunshot wound inside a home in Belleview on Sunday. He was rushed to a local hospital where he died from the injuries, cops said.
An ensuing probe revealed that Broad and another boy, 4, 17, were taking turns “shooting each other while wearing a vest which contained a form of body armor,” the Belleview Police Department said in a statement.
A third teen, Colton Whitler, was present at the time of the tragedy and allegedly gave officers a false account of what took place, authorities said.
“Vining shot at Broad while he was wearing the vest and he was struck,” the statement stated.
Vining and Whitler were arrested in connection with Broad’s death Thursday and will be charged as adults, cops said.
Vining’s charge will be aggravated manslaughter of a child by a firearm, and Whitler’s charge will be providing false information to cops.
It looks like they tried to cover up the shooting by saying it was an accident and not a game they were playing.
No word on if this was some sort of TikTok challenge, but to be on the safe, under no circumstance should you shoot someone for play, no matter if you have a vest on or not.
Also, how did these kids even have vests?
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