{"id":108216,"date":"2024-12-17T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T12:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/child-shot-after-younger-brother-accesses-unsecured-gun-police\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T12:03:32","slug":"child-shot-after-younger-brother-accesses-unsecured-gun-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/child-shot-after-younger-brother-accesses-unsecured-gun-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Child shot after younger brother accesses unsecured gun: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-17\/GETTYRF_121422_FrenchPolice.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Bernard Van Berg \/ EyeEm\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; A 5-year-old girl suffered a gunshot wound in her upper body after her 3-year-old brother accessed an unsecured firearm in a southwest Washington, D.C., apartment on Monday evening, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela A. Smith said that officers responded at approximately 6:30 p.m. to an apartment in the Unit block of Galveston Street SW for reports of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we know at this time is the female victim was injured when a younger child accessed a firearm that was unsecured in the apartment,&#8221; Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>The girl was administered first aid and transported to an area hospital in serious condition. She remained in critical condition, according to Smith.<\/p>\n<p>A man, who was responsible for providing care for the children at the time the incident occurred, was inside the apartment and was arrested and charged with cruelty to children, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A woman was also arrested and charged with assaulting a special police officer, who worked at the apartment complex, police said. Police said they believed the woman was the sister of the girl who was shot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I want to emphasize tonight is that this incident really highlights the danger of unsecured firearms in homes and especially around children,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;We want to emphasize the importance of firearm safety and we are asking everyone to keep our young female victim in your prayers at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Smith said the investigation remained ongoing and that the information provided at the press conference was preliminary and subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Van Berg \/ EyeEm\/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; A 5-year-old girl suffered a gunshot wound in her upper body after her 3-year-old brother accessed an unsecured firearm in a southwest Washington, D.C., apartment on Monday evening, police said. Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela A. Smith said that officers responded at approximately<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/child-shot-after-younger-brother-accesses-unsecured-gun-police\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}