FORT WORTH (1080 KRLD) - Fort Worth police say two children were accidentally shot Thursday by another child.
It happed around 10:45 a.m. The children's grandmother drove both the children to the emergency room at Cook Children's Medical Center. A 7-year-old boy had been shot in the chest and a 5-year-old girl had been shot in the elbow.
The 7-year-old was rushed into surgery. The 5-year-old was treated and released.
NEW: Police in @fortworthpd are investigating an accidental shooting. They say a child found a shotgun in the home and accidentally discharged it striking the two other children @KRLD
— Austin York (@realAustinYork) June 27, 2019It happened at a home on the 2100 block of Sanborn Street, near I-30. A man who lives there says his daughter found the 7-year-old boy playing with a handgun in a laundry basket and tried to take it away from him. A tug of war ensued and the gun went off, striking both children.
The man told KRLD most of the adults living in the home had criminal records, so the gun was not supposed to be in the home.
Police did not say whether any charges would be filed.
