Teen held in Oct. 28 shooting

By STEPHANIE HAYES
Published November 17, 2006

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TAMPA - Tampa police arrested a 14-year-old boy Thursday accused of shooting another 14-year-old in the face Oct. 28, leaving bullet fragments behind the boy's eye.

"I didn't mean to shoot that boy," Michael Wayne Scott said, according to police.

James D. Jackson, 17, of 6904 78th St., provided the .25-caliber gun, helped rob the boy and implicated Scott, said police spokesman Larry McKinnon.

Jackson was talking to police Wednesday because he was accused of shooting a homeless man after helping another teen rob him. Police said Jackson's accomplice in that shooting as Clayton A. White, 16.

"We're looking at other robberies as well," McKinnon said.

Police said Anthony Kent, 14, was riding his bicycle near Linebaugh Avenue and 14th Street on Oct. 28 when Scott hit him in the face with the gun, which discharged, sending a bullet through Kent's nostril.

Kent was treated at Tampa General Hospital and released.

About 1 a.m. Wednesday, police say, Jackson stole $10 from Don VanHook at a Citgo gas station at 3003 E Busch Blvd. He then tried to shoot the victim in the head, police said, but the gun jammed, and he shot him in the right leg.

VanHook was in fair condition at St. Joseph's Hospital.