Two-year-old boy shot in stomach in Northeast Miami-Dade. How it happened is unclear.
Hours after a toddler boy was shot in the stomach Thursday night in Northeast Miami-Dade, police were still trying to piece together what happened.
Police say around 6 p.m. a neighbor called 911 to report that he saw a man get into a silver vehicle with a child and that there had been shooting.
As police rushed to the area of Northeast 14th Avenue and 202nd Street in Northeast Miami-Dade, they received a call from Aventura police about a 2-year-old who had been shot, said Miami-Dade Det. Chris Thomas.
The 2-year-old was shot in the abdomen, police said. Police said the child’s father drove the toddler to Aventura Hospital and Medical Center and police were notified by hospital workers of the shooting.
Thomas said the father has been cooperating with police.
But Thomas said it wasn’t clear if he was in the home at the time of the shooting.
Police quickly learned that it had not been a drive-by as was initially reported.
“The shooting occurred somewhere in the residence,” Thomas said. Thomas said police were still trying to determine who was in the home when the shooting took place.
The child suffered a single gunshot to his abdomen and is in stable condition, he said. The child was taken from Aventura Hospital to Memorial’s Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood late Thursday.
Police blocked off the street late into the night as investigators tried to determine how the child was shot. A police helicopter with a searchlight circled the area.
A woman who lives across the street from where the boy was shot said that a couple moved to the area about a year ago. The woman, who would not give her name, said she has seen two teenage boys at the home, but did not recall seeing a young child.
This story was originally published January 31, 2019 at 7:31 PM.
