Boy shot after officer's gun goes off during arrest attempt

     OSCEOLA, Ark. (AP) – A 16-year-old boy has been shot after an Arkansas police
officer's weapon discharged as she was attempting to arrest him.
     The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the Osceola police chief has asked
the Arkansas State Police to investigate the shooting.
     The boy was struck by the officer's errant bullet Friday morning. He was
treated at a local hospital and released later in the day.
     State Police spokesman Bill Sadler says Osceola police officers were called to
an attempted robbery at a convenience store and when the police arrived, they
arrested one person.
     Sadler says the 16-year-old tried to get into a vehicle parked in the store's
lot and an officer tried to remove him from it.
     That's when the officer's gun discharged and hit the boy.