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KCSO: 10-year-old child shot in the chest in Oildale

10-year-old boy hit by stray bullet
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The Kern County Sheriff's Department said 10-year-old Ayddan West was shot in the stomach last weekend in Oildale.

Deputies responded in the area of North Chester near the Kern River just after 5:00 p.m. for reports of a shooting.

West was taken to Kern Medical with non-life threatening injuries and released the next day.

KCSO were unable to locate a crime scene or a suspect.

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