Miami Gardens child hospitalized after ‘self-inflicted’ gunshot to leg
.jpg "Police responded to a toddler’s “self-inflicted” gunshot to their leg early Wednesday morning at a Miami Gardens apartment complex.")
A Miami Gardens child was rushed to the hospital after shooting their leg at an apartment complex early Wednesday morning.
Officers responded to a “self-inflicted gunshot wound” involving a toddler around 1:40 a.m. at the 2200 block of NW 210th Street, Miami Gardens police spokesperson Diana Delgado told the Herald. The young child had taken a single bullet to the leg when cops arrived.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue took the toddler to a local children’s hospital, confirmed Delgado. The nearest pediatric facility is Joe DiMaggio’s Children’s Hospital in Hollywood.
Moments earlier, neighbors said they heard one shot fired on the complex grounds, just north of Hard Rock Stadium and behind Calder Casino, followed by a woman’s cries for help, reported Miami Herald news partner CBS4.
Investigators honed in on a white car that appeared to have blood splattered across its backseat and outside on its rear. CBS4 footage of the complex parking lot shows the sedan roped off with police tape and surrounded by patrol cars with its four doors left wide open.
“I have three children myself. To react to somebody, a child, an innocent child getting hurt, that says everything. There’s no reaction to explain,” Natasha Edge, who lives in the complex, told the news station. “If you have a sister or brother or a child gets hurt, like everybody, everybody hurts, we all bleed for that.”
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
