JONATHAN. THANK YOU. LET’S GET YOU BACK OUT TO THAT BREAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW. A YOUNG CHILD ACCIDENTALLY SHOT IN A NORTHWEST OKC NEIGHBORHOOD, AND BOTH SKY 5 AND OUR GROUND CREW ON THE SCENE, PILOT CHASE RUTLEDGE GIVING US A BIRD’S EYE VIEW THERE. WHILE KOCO AUDREY GOODSON TALKED WITH AUTHORITIES ON THE GROUND. AND AUDREY, WHAT DO WE KNOW SO FAR THIS MORNING? KYLIE AND ALEJANDRA, THIS IS A VERY UNFORTUNATE SITUATION. A FIVE YEAR-OLD WAS SHOT IN THE LEG AT THIS HOME BEHIND ME YOU CAN SEE POLICE ARE STILL HERE INVESTIGATING. BUT WE DO KNOW THAT THAT CHILD WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL. AND THE GOOD NEWS IS THEY ARE EXPECTED TO BE OKAY. OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE DO TELL US THIS APPEARS TO BE ACCIDENTAL. THE CALL CAME IN ABOUT 7:00 THIS MORNING, AND THE PARENTS WERE HOME AND HEARD THOSE GUNSHOTS. WHEN ASKED IF ANYONE WOULD BE ARRESTED, THEY SAID THERE LIKELY WOULD BE NO CHARGES, BUT I AM GOING TO BE CHECKING IN WITH OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE THROUGHOUT THE MORNING TO GIVE YOU ALL ANY KIND OF UPDATE ON THIS DEVELOPING STORY LIV
5-year-old taken to hospital after accidentally being shot in leg in northwest OKC, police say
Officers learned that a 4-year-old found a gun and accidentally shot the 5-year-old
Updated: 9:22 AM CDT Jul 12, 2024
A 5-year-old was taken to a hospital after accidentally being shot in the leg Friday morning in northwest Oklahoma City.Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking here.Police told KOCO 5 that they received a call shortly after 7:10 a.m. that a child had been shot in the 9900 block of Mashburn Boulevard, which is in a neighborhood near North Council Road and Northwest Expressway.Officers learned that a 4-year-old found a gun and accidentally shot the 5-year-old. The injured child was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.>> Download the KOCO 5 AppSky 5, which is the only news helicopter in the air on weekday mornings, showed a large police presence in the neighborhood as well as crime scene tape around two vehicles in a driveway and the front of a home.KOCO 5 will provide more details when they become available.Top Headlines 1 in custody, another taken to hospital after head-on crash in northwest Oklahoma City Victim at center of suspicious death investigation in Grady County identified 'Nearly all' AT&T cell customers’ call and text records exposed in a massive breach Secondhand e-cigarette aerosols expose kids to less nicotine than cigarettes, study finds, but can still be risky Victim in Oklahoma suspicious death investigation described as a mom, friend and a giver
OKLAHOMA CITY — A 5-year-old was taken to a hospital after accidentally being shot in the leg Friday morning in northwest Oklahoma City.
Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking here.
Police told KOCO 5 that they received a call shortly after 7:10 a.m. that a child had been shot in the 9900 block of Mashburn Boulevard, which is in a neighborhood near North Council Road and Northwest Expressway.
Officers learned that a 4-year-old found a gun and accidentally shot the 5-year-old. The injured child was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
>> Download the KOCO 5 App
Sky 5, which is the only news helicopter in the air on weekday mornings, showed a large police presence in the neighborhood as well as crime scene tape around two vehicles in a driveway and the front of a home.
KOCO 5 will provide more details when they become available.
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