Bucks teen's lawsuit settled

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By Staff Writer
MARCH 21, 2001

The Inquirer reported that a Bucks County teenager who suffered massive brain damage when he was hit in the head with a BB gun his lawyers say was defective will receive a settlement, according to court documents.

The settlement for Tucker Mahoney, 17, of Solebury, is the result of a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court against Daisy Manufacturing, an Arkansas company that produced the BB gun, and Kmart Corp., which sells the gun at its chain of discount stores.

In May 1999, Mahoney was hit behind the left ear with a pellet from a 7856 Daisy Power Line air gun. Weatherby and Mahoney believed that the gun was empty, court documents say. The two teenagers couldn't hear pellets rattling in the gun, and when they fired it earlier, no pellets were released, the documents say.