Teen shot in face with pellet gun

Mar. 25—Police were contacted Tuesday night when a 13-year-old boy was brought to the emergency room of Mercy Hospital Joplin with a pellet gun wound above an eye.

Capt. Will Davis said the teen reported having been shot by someone in a black Dodge pickup truck while he was walking along 15th Street near Virginia Avenue.

Davis said the report remained under investigation without any arrests having been made.