12-year-old shot during domestic situation in DeKalb neighborhood
A child was shot Friday morning during a domestic incident at a DeKalb County neighborhood, police said.
The shooting happened at around 1:30 a.m. in the 1500 block of Walnut Ridge Court just outside Redan. Family members told Channel 2 Action News that a 12-year-old was hurt. The child was stable when taken to the hospital.
Police said the incident remains under investigation, but confirmed it was a domestic situation that ended in gunfire.
Investigators were still canvassing the area and collecting evidence just before 6 a.m. No details were released about what may have led to the gunfire.
The incident follows another shooting Tuesday night that sent a 14-year-old boy to a hospital. He was grazed in the head when someone in a vehicle opened fire on a house on Green Marsh Court, located in a neighborhood in the southern part of the county.
No arrests have been announced in either shooting.
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