A 3-year-old woman was shot in the right attention inside a house in East Germantown, and she is now in critical condition, according to authorities.
The crippled girl was driven in a personal car to Einstein Medical Center around 1: 15 p. m. Saturday, authorities said. According to police resources with knowledge of the firing who did not want to be identified because they were never permitted to speak about it in public, a gun entered her right eye and exited her left eye. Physicians were airlifting the baby to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children, police said.
According to a Couple, police have taken a man into captivity for questioning and a gun has been recovered from a house on the 500 wall of East Chelten Avenue. Jasmine Reilly, a director for the office.
The little lady is the , following child shot , inside a Philadelphia home in nine weeks.
A 4-year-old woman in Northwest Philadelphia shot herself in the foot while playing with a firearm she found in a friend’s apartment, and she is now in stable condition in a hospital on March 28. Authorities interviewed three people, including the woman’s family, who were in the home at the time. In that case, it’s not known whether any arrests were made.
According to authorities, 29 children under the age of 18 have been , shot in Philadelphia in 2024, six of them fatally.
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