15 YEAR OLD IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER HE WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD THURSDAY NIGHT 105 THIRD ST.

ACCORDING  TO  LT.  ANDREW  PIPPIN  OF  THE   THOMASTON  POLICE  DEPARTMENT,  A  15  YEAR  OLD  BLACK MALE  WAS  TREATED  AT   THE  E.R.  AT  URMC  AND  THEN  AIR-FLIGHTED  TO  A  MACON  HOSPITAL  WITH  A  GUNSHOT  WOUND  TO  THE  FOREHEAD  FROM  A   45  CALIBER   HANDGUN.

  THE  SUSPECTED  SHOOTER,  THE  VICTIM'S  OLDER  BROTHER,  17  YEAR  OLD  CHRISTOPHER  LYNN  JONES  OF   105  THIRD  STREET,  IS  BEING  HELD  IN  THE  UPSON  COUNTY  JAIL  ON  CHARGES OF  AGGREVATED  ASSAULT.  JONES   SAID  HE   POINTED  THE  PISTOL AT  HIS  YOUNGER  BROTHER  AND  IT  WENT  OFF.

 LT.  PIPPIN  TOLD  HOMETOWN RADIO  NEWS,  ANOTHER  TEEN  IN  THE  BEDROOM,  ATRAVIUS  MOZELL IS  ALSO  IN  JAIL  ON   THEFT  CHARGES  FOR    STEALING  THE  HANDGUN  DURING  A  CAR  BREAK-IN  AUGUST  19TH.

FIVE  YOUTHS,   ONE  A  FEMALE  JUVENILE , WERE  IN  A  BEDROOM  SMOKING  MARIJUANA,  WHEN  THE  HORSE  PLAY  STARTED  WITH  THE  HANDGUN ,   ACCORDING  TO  LT.  PIPPIN.  NO  ADULTS  WERE   AT  HOME.