12-year-old shot inside second floor bedroom inside Detroit home
Child wounded in the leg, expected to survive.
A 12-year-old Detroit boy is recovering after being shot in the leg in an upstairs bedroom Monday night on the city's east side.
A suspect fired shots into the home around 8:40 p.m., FOX 2 Detroit reports. Police say he wasn't the only one inside the house, but was the only one wounded.
A 12-year-old boy was shot, wounded in an upstairs bedroom on Detroit's east side. ( FOX 2 Detroit (WJBK))
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Suspect information isn't available, according to the TV station. Police believe the house was the intended target, but not the child.
"Senseless cowards shooting houses up," a Detroit police officer said at the scene. "Unfortunately I see it so many times, kids and people hit by gunfire. I am sure the 12-year-old is not beefing with anybody."
The shooting happened just blocks away from where an 8-year-old girl was shot and wounded in November, FOX 2 reports.
A 12-year-old boy was shot, wounded in an upstairs bedroom on Detroit's east side. ( FOX 2 Detroit (WJBK))
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