An 8-year-old girl was taken to a hospital Monday morning after she was shot while asleep inside a DeKalb County home, authorities said.
Police were called to a home in the 3000 block of Orbit Circle in Ellenwood about 1:30 a.m., according to DeKalb police spokeswoman Michaela Vincent. The child was sleeping in her bed when a bullet came through a wall and struck her, Channel 2 Action News reported.
She was stable when she was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive, Vincent said. No other injuries were reported.
Investigators believe an adult who lives in the home was the intended target of the shooting, Vincent said. He was taken into police custody, but has not been charged, she said.
No arrests have been made in connection with the shooting. An investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call DeKalb police at 770-724-7850.
It’s the latest metro area shooting involving a child.
Early this month, DeKalb County police arrested one man after 5-year-old Jada Willingham died from a gunshot wound to the face on Madras Court. Chad Brooks Sr., 36, of Lithonia, is charged with second-degree murder and second-degree cruelty to children after Jada and a friend found a gun and were playing with it.
Within a span of seven hours in late November, two children were shot at the same southwest Atlanta apartment complex. A 13-year-old girl was shot Nov. 29 and a 14-year-old boy was shot the next day at the Mechanicsville Station apartments, authorities said. Both were expected to survive their injuries. The Fulton Street complex is just blocks away from another row of apartments on Ira Street where a 12-year-old girl was injured in a shooting the previous week.
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