A 7-year-old Ohio boy was hospitalized following a taking pictures that despatched a bullet by way of his condominium wall.
Police advised native retailers WOIO, News 5 Cleveland and WKYC that at round 2:45 a.m. native time on Saturday, Dec. 21, officers responded to a name a couple of taking pictures in an condominium constructing positioned on the 400 block of Wildwood Avenue in West Akron.
The kid was injured within the taking pictures, sustaining a gunshot wound. In a 911 name obtained by WOIO, the boy’s mom will be heard asking first responders to reach as quickly as potential and reassuring her son as he cried within the background.
Emergency personnel arrived on the scene and transported the boy to a close-by hospital. Information 5 reported that he’s in “severe however secure situation,” and WOIO mentioned that the boy underwent a profitable surgical procedure earlier than being transferred to intensive care.
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Officers mentioned that whereas the taking pictures continues to be beneath investigation, police imagine that an upstairs neighbor within the condominium constructing fired photographs, the retailers reported.
In keeping with WOIO, at the very least one bullet handed by way of the ground and hit the boy. Police mentioned investigators searched the unit instantly above the boy and his mom. Whereas nobody was dwelling on the time of the investigation, police discovered a bullet gap within the ground.
“Whereas the precise circumstances are unknown, preliminary data means that an unknown topic fired gunshots inside an upstairs condominium, and at the very least one of many bullets penetrated the ground and struck the sufferer, who was contained in the residence beneath,” the Akron police division mentioned, per WKYC.
The Akron Police Division didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.
Akron detectives are asking anybody who has data that might assist to establish and find “anybody with information of or accountable” for the taking pictures to name the Akron Police Division Detective Bureau at 330-375-2490 or 330-375-2TIP.
