{"id":23679,"date":"2016-10-06T20:43:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T03:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/4-year-old-hit-by-fragments-of-bullet-fired-from-apartment\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T20:43:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T03:43:46","slug":"4-year-old-hit-by-fragments-of-bullet-fired-from-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/4-year-old-hit-by-fragments-of-bullet-fired-from-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"4-year-old hit by fragments of bullet fired from apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"
ANCHORAGE \u2014 A 4-year-old Anchorage girl was struck and injured by bullet fragments when someone in an upstairs apartment fired a gun.<\/p>\n
Police early Thursday took a call from a hospital reporting the girl had suffered puncture wounds. They were not life-threatening.<\/p>\n
The girl\u2019s parents told police she and three other children had been left Wednesday night with a 17-year-old.<\/p>\n
When the parents returned, they checked on the girl and found blood in the bed and wounds to her legs. The parents drove the girl to the hospital.<\/p>\n
Police investigated the family\u2019s first-floor home at an apartment complex on San Roberto Avenue east of Russian Jack Springs Park.<\/p>\n
Investigators determined a shot was fired from third-floor apartment directly above the family\u2019s apartment.<\/p>\n
Police continue to investigate and have made no arrests.<\/p>\n
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