A 26-year-old man has been arrested after a Jewish boy was shot in the head with an air rifle.
The suspect is alleged to have shouted abuse at the teenager as he walked to a synagogue before firing the weapon.
The victim was struck in the forehead but suffered superficial injuries in the attack in the East Cliff area of Bournemouth.
The shooting happened on the same weekend that several homes owned by Jewish people in the same area were daubed in Nazi swastikas.
Police are treating both attacks as hate crime incidents and have arrested a man from Ferndown, Dorset, for the air rifle shooting.
