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Police are looking for four teenagers after an 11-year boy was repeatedly shot with BB guns Thursday night.

The boy was walking his dog with his mother in the Sentinel Road and Finch Avenue West area at 10:30 p.m when he was approached by four boys between the ages of 14 and 15, who proceeded to shoot him with BB guns before fleeing the scene, police reported.

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The boy was not seriously injured, but police say the potential for serious injury is extremely high with BB guns if someone “were to be shot in the wrong place.”

“BB guns are firearms, they just aren’t prohibited,” Constable David Hopkinson of Toronto Police said Friday afternoon. “They are quite powerful, but they’re silent. They use them to kill geese up at some of the golf courses.”

“These boys could be facing some pretty serious charges when they are found.”

These boys could be facing some pretty serious charges when they are found

Two of the four boys had short afros and were wearing light-coloured shorts and light-coloured shirts. The other two were wearing baseball caps and light-coloured clothing. All are described as black.

BB guns are still considered weapons by police, but are not prohibited because they do not meet the muzzle velocity requirements for prohibition.

For a BB gun to be included as a firearm under the Criminal Code, it must have a muzzle velocity, the speed at which a projectile exits the barrel, greater than 500 feet per second.