CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A 14-year-old boy was shot Tuesday while he and his brother handled a gun outside of their Cleveland home, police say.

The bullet struck the boy's left hand and traveled through his calf, a police report says. His condition was not immediately available on Wednesday.

A police spokeswoman said the shooting was possibly accidental. Neither boy has been arrested.

The 14-year-old boy and his 15-year-old brother told police that the gun went off when they were taking out trash at about 1:30 a.m. at their house on East 115th Street near Superior Avenue.

The 14-year-old told police that his older brother had a gun in his bookbag, so he asked him to see it, the report says.

The boy said that the gun went off after he handed it back to the older brother, the report says.

The boys tossed the gun in the trash can, then the older boy ran inside to alert their mother. She then drove them to University Hospitals so the younger boy could be treated.

Officers questioned the older brother at the hospital. He told them that the 14-year-old was the one who originally had the gun in his bookbag, the report says.

The 15-year-old told police that he asked his brother to check it out. He said the gun went off as he prepared to hand it back to his younger brother, the report says.

The younger boy told investigators that he had taken the gun out of a car in Cleveland Heights, the report says.

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