NORWAY – Police issued a summons to a 13-year-old boy on charges of reckless conduct and criminal mischief after investigating a BB gun shooting at a local child-care center.

On Tuesday, police Chief Rob Federico said a second teenager is also being investigated in connection with the case.

In late August, a 6-year-old boy was struck in the bottom with a BB while climbing a playground structure outside the Community Child Care Center on Cottage Street. He was not badly hurt.

Supervisors at the center did not immediately realize what had happened to the little boy, who was screaming that he had been hit or stung, because he would not let anyone inspect the injury, said Brenda Dionne, director of the child care center.

It was only later that afternoon, when three local teenagers returned to the center and one reportedly shot at a truck in the center’s parking lot that employees realized the little boy could have been hit by a BB Pellet.

Later that evening, when the injured boy’s parents looked at his wound, they identified it as a pellet wound, according to Dionne. She said no other children noticed anything amiss when the little boy was hit around 2:30 p.m.

“My last thought on earth was someone would be shooting a kid,” Dionne said. “We didn’t put it together until three hours later when there were BB holes in the truck.”

Police were called then, and the boys ran off, but not before witnesses gave police their names. Dionne said she knows the boys, and one lives in a nearby housing complex.

There is a hole in the fence between the center and the complex through which someone could have shot a gun.

On Monday night, Dionne arranged a parent meeting with Norway police to talk about the shooting.

Dionne said the center could not have done anything differently because there was no way of knowing the accused boys were a threat to the children.

“They have not been the best-behaved children,” Dionne said, saying she has heard the boys use foul language. But, she added that they have also played with the center’s children and ice skated with them at the nearby rink.

“This is a matter of kids not having the right supervision and not having the right common sense,” she said.

Since the incident, Dionne said the center staff is walking around the yard to check for any potential troublemakers before letting the children out. The police have also ordered the boys to stay off the center’s grounds, but they cannot prevent them from approaching the fence that borders the property, Federico said.

Some parents are writing letters to the juvenile community corrections officer clarifying their desires for a strict disciplinary process, hoping for more than a slap on the wrist, Dionne said.

Chris Dillman, the juvenile community corrections officer, said he could not comment on the case, but that the court could order punishment ranging from a fine and community service to time served in a juvenile detention center. For the charges in this case, he said it was unlikely the outcome would be time served.

“All you want is for the kids to be safe,” Dionne said.