NEWPORT, N.H. (AP) — Police in New Hampshire say a 2-year-old girl suffered a gunshot wound to the leg when a gun discharged from a downstairs apartment, and a man is in custody.
Police Chief James Burroughs in Newport, New Hampshire said the girl hospitalized. She is in stable condition.
Burroughs said police found the girl inside the second-floor apartment with a gunshot injury to her right leg late Sunday. Their investigation showed a single shot had come from the first-floor apartment.
They arrested the sole occupant of the apartment, 51-year-old Timothy Hale, on a charge of reckless conduct with a deadly weapon. He’s scheduled to be arraigned Monday. It wasn’t immediately known if Hale had a lawyer.
Police said a single 12-gauge shotgun round was discharged from Hale’s bedroom through the ceiling.
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