CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — An 11-year-old boy is in the hospital after being shot inside a Bronzeville home Sunday morning.
The boy was with two other children in a living room in home near 40th Street and King Drive when Chicago police said he was shot just before 2 a.m.
Initially, police said neither the 11-year-old victim nor the 8- or 12-year-olds would tell officers what happened.
Now they said it appear the 8-year-old accidentally fired the gun, hitting the 11-year-old. He is hospitalized in fair condition with a gunshot wound to the right thigh.
No one is in custody.
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