Complex sentence: Inadvertently caught up in the hail of bullets, a 10-year-old boy, Ralph Joselyne, was hit and died in the arms of a bystander before he could be taken to hospital.
Split into simpler sentences: Inadvertently caught up in the hail of bullets, a 10-year-old boy, Ralph Joselyne, was hit. He died in the arms of a bystander before he could be taken to hospital.