Police charge 2 boys in Chantilly pellet gun shooting

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Fairfax County police charged two 16-year-old boys in connection with a pellet gun shooting that injured two students at a Chantilly middle school two weeks ago.

One teen has been charged with two counts of malicious wounding and one count of shooting into an occupied building. The second boy has been charged with one count of malicious wounding and shooting into an occupied building. All the charges are felonies, and the boys face 5 to 20 years in prison and fines of up to $100,000 if convicted on the malicious wounding charges.

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