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School officials: Boy who was shot is out of hospital

Suspect in Butler County Jail, court date set for May 3.

Staff Writer

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

MONROE — A 10-year-old Monroe boy accidentally shot in the leg by a gun while visiting a home in Hamilton Saturday, April 26,has been released from an area hospital, but still hasn't returned to school, Monroe school officials said.

The Hamilton Police Department said Michael Scott Duggins was carrying a .32 caliber revolver at 2 p.m. Saturday while walking through his living room when it fired a bullet that struck the left thigh of the boy who was in the same

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Police said the boy lives in Monroe, but did not say whether he was a friend or relative of the Duggins family.

Duggins, 33, has prior convictions for drug abuse and discharging a firearm into a habitation, police said. He is charged with felonies of negligent assault, weapons under disability and three misdemeanor drug charges, according to records. He is being held on $10,041 bond in the Butler County Jail.

Duggins' case has been continued until May 3 in Hamilton Municipal Court.

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