Boy, 5, shot in eye by paintball gun

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A 5-year-old boy in the San Francisco Bay Area was injured after being shot in the eye with a paintball gun.

Melinda Krigel - a spokeswoman for the University of California, San Francisco, Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland - says Corrmauri Hunter was hit in the left eye just after 6 p.m. on Tuesday as he rode in a car in West Oakland with his mother and at least one other passenger.

Krigel says Corrmauri underwent surgery Tuesday night and that he was awake and talking Wednesday when he was visited by Oakland Interim Police Chief Sean Whent, who brought him a Teddy bear.

Krigel adds that no additional surgeries are expected and that he is expected to regain sight in the eye.

Officer Frank Bonifacio says no arrests have been made. A motive for the attack wasn’t known.