BOY SHOT BY SWAT TEAM IN DRUG RAID AT HIS HOME

MODESTO, Calif., Sept. 14 (AP) - An 11-year-old boy was killed on Wednesday
by a member of a police SWAT team in a drug raid at the boy's home.

The boy, Alberto Sepulveda, a seventh grader, was shot in the back when an
officer accidentally fired his shotgun, said Chief Roy Wasden of the
Modesto Police Department.

The officer, David Hawn, a 21-year department veteran and a SWAT team
member for more than 18 years, was placed on paid leave pending an
investigation.

Chief Wasden would not give further details of the shooting, which occurred
here in Modesto, about 75 miles east of San Francisco.

The boy's father, Moises Sepulveda, was arrested on charges of
methamphetamine trafficking.