4-year-old boy hurt when shot by another child

A 4-year-old boy was hospitalized Monday with a gunshot wound to the arm after being shot by another child on the Northside.

Indianapolis Metropolitan police were called to Community North Hospital about 2:45 p.m. to investigate, according to police dispatchers. The parents had taken the boy there, police said.

The child subsequently was transported to Riley Hospital for Children, said Officer Rafael Diaz, spokesman for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

Dispatchers said that the gun used belonged to a parent and that the child who was holding the gun when it went off found the weapon inside the home. The boy who was wounded was shot once in the arm.

The 4-year-old was visiting the apartment of relatives, who were either moving in or moving out, when the other child found the gun and it went off, Diaz said.

Investigators from the Department of Child Services and police were continuing to piece together what happened, he said.

Additional information about the shooting was not immediately available.

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