Neshoba Central football players shot with pellets at practice

Three Philadelphia, Mississippi high school students are charged with aggravated assault after Neshoba Central football players were shot with pellets and BB’s during practice Thursday.

Today – Neshoba County sheriff Eric Clark said the players had minor injuries.

One was shot in the ankle and one in the back.

An X-ray showed a third player has a pellet lodged near his collarbone.

Three students from Philadelphia High School are charged as juveniles.

The sheriff says they were shooting in a wooded area near the field when they should have been in school.

A K-9 was used to track a scent to one of the juveniles’ homes – and that teenager gave the names of the other two. Two high-powered pellet air rifles and one CO2 BB handgun were found in one of the homes.

Clark said he doesn’t think the shootings are connected to a school rivalry.