12-year-old shot multiple times by driver after throwing snowball at car in Connecticut

Police in Connecticut have launched a manhunt for a suspect who opened fire on a pair of kids, striking a 12-year-old multiple times, after the children hit the gunman’s car with a snowball last week.

Officers in Hartford responded to a shooting around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday and discovered the injured 12-year-old, according to Hartford Police.

The victim and their 11-year-old friend had been having a snowball fight outside when one of the snowballs struck a car passing by, police said.

The vehicle circled around to chase the children down and the driver fired a gun at the kids, police said at a news conference on Thursday.

The 12-year-old sustained non-life-threatening gunshot wounds and was taken to Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. The 11-year-old was not injured.

No suspect had been arrested by Sunday and police are continuing to investigate.

Snowballs have proven to incidentally stir trouble for years, even as annual snowfall countrywide has decreased.

In early December, football fans went wild and made it rain snowballs on members of the San Francisco 49ers during a game against the Buffalo Bills on their home turf in snowstorm-laden Buffalo, NY. Bills fans were back at it again in late January during a game against the Kansas City Chiefs.

One town in Wisconsin took a different approach and banned snowball throwing outright.