A 7-year-old girl was shot in the torso Friday night in Southeast Washington, D.C. police said.

The severity of the girl’s wound was not immediately clear. She was conscious and breathing when taken to a hospital, said Officer Sean Hickman, a police spokesman.

She was wounded about 9:40 p.m. in t he 2400 block of Hartford Street SE. The circumstances were not known.

D.C. Council member LaRuby May (D-Ward 8) said at the scene that police were alerted by shotspotter, a device that detects gunfire.

She said they went to the scene and found the girl.