Young child shot, hospitalized after bullet struck Kansas City home Sunday
A young child was hospitalized in a shooting Sunday evening in Kansas City, police said.
Officers were dispatched to a local hospital at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday after they were told a juvenile was brought to the hospital with a gunshot wound.
Police said the victim, who is younger than 10, was suffering from a gunshot wound.
Doctors said the injury was not life-threatening, according to police.
The child’s mother told officers that she and the child were inside a home Sunday evening in the 4600 block of East 27th Street when they heard several gunshots. Then she realized the child had been injured.
No additional information was immediately available.
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