MAN BLAST A 12 YEAR OLD BOY WITH A SHOTGUN FOR DOORBELL PRANK!

A game of Ding-Dong-Ditch nearly cost a boy his life after a middle-aged man blasted him in the back with a shotgun, police said.

The incident occurred about 10 p.m. Monday while a group of kids played the game, where someone rings a person's doorbell and then runs away, on the suspect's street.

Witnesses told police that Michael Bishop, 56, came out to his front porch armed with a shotgun, then fired it at the youths.

The victim, 12-year-old Jason Eberle, was struck in the back and shoulder. He was in stable condition at Kosair Children's Hospital with collapsed lungs, according to WLKY 32 News.

Bishop was charged with attempted murder.

It was unclear if the boys had rung Bishop's doorbell before the shooting, but neighbors said the group had played the prank in the area the previous evening.

"There were some complaints about some kids knocking on doors, ringing doorbells," police spokesman Dwight Mitchell told WAVE 3 News.

Local residents were stunned by the shooting.

"I'm shocked," Ida Buffat, who lives down the street from Bishop, told the Courier-Journal. "You don't do that kind of stuff in the country."

Another neighbor, Doug Dorsey, brushed the doorbell game off as just "kids being kids."



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