Toddler in critical condition after Tuesday night shooting; police aren't ruling out accident

Megan Banta | Lansing State Journal

LANSING – A toddler is in critical condition as police continue investigating a Tuesday night shooting incident that critically injured the boy.

Officers and paramedics were called to an apartment in the Silver Stone housing complex on South Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard around 8:47 p.m. Tuesday for a shooting involving a child, according to the Lansing Police Department.

They arrived to find a 3-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the head who was having trouble breathing, LPD Public Information Director Robert Merritt said.

Police immediately removed the child from the home, transferring him during emergency transport to Lansing Fire Department medics, who took the boy to a local hospital where he remains in critical condition.

Detectives and crime scene investigators are still putting together the sequence of events that led up to the shooting but have accounted for all the individuals involved, police said.

Two adults were in the home at the time of the shooting, but no arrests have been made, and there is no ongoing threat to the community, police said.

Investigators are not ruling out the possibility that the shooting was accidental and self-inflicted, according to a news release Merritt released Wednesday morning.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call LPD at 483-4600, Detective. Sgt. Beth Frazier at 483-4659 or Crime Stopper at 483-7867. People also can send a private message to the Lansing Police Department on Facebook.

Contact reporter Megan Banta at (517) 377-1261 or mbanta@lsj.com. Follow her on Twitter @MeganBanta_1.

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