An Alabama teen was fatally shot while in his room playing on his iPad

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The boy was sitting in his room Friday evening when bullets fired at his home pierced through the window, striking him in the head, the Tuscaloosa Police Department said in a statement.
"The parents and family of a 13-year-old boy had to stand across the street and watch paramedics drive the ambulance away after realizing there was nothing they could do," police said.
"We see it all the time where adults are shot and it's terrible, but when it's a kid, it takes it to another level," Blankley said in a video posted to the police department's Facebook page.
The shooting doesn't appear to be accidental, Capt. Marty Sellers of the Tuscaloosa Police Department Violent Crimes Unit told CNN affiliate WBRC "It was an on purpose shooting, but (the teen) was probably not the target of that.