A 5-year-old girl was shot Monday morning in northwest Atlanta after two men got into an argument and exchanged gunfire, according to police.
Atlanta officers were called to the Allen Hills apartments off Martin Luther King Jr. Drive around 9:30 a.m. after getting reports of a child shot, police said in a news release. They found the girl with a gunshot wound to her left wrist, and she was taken to the hospital. She was considered stable, but police did not provide additional information about her injuries.
Two other children, 9- and 2-year-old boys, also were in the house at the time of the shooting, according to Fulton County court records.
Two 31-year-old men — Travis Lester and Terry Burnett — face charges in connection with the shooting.
According to their arrest warrants, Burnett shot at Lester from inside his home while the children were present. Lester then ran into a breezeway after being shot, but returned with a firearm and shot at the apartment, resulting in the 5-year-old being struck. It was not clear what led up to the shooting.
Lester was taken into custody at the scene on charges of aggravated assault, first- and second-degree cruelty to children, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Burnett was arrested at the same time on similar charges: aggravated assault, third-degree cruelty to children and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
No further details have been released about the case.
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