Child injured in the head in a possible shooting in Rockledge

J.D. Gallop | Florida Today

Show Caption Hide Caption Child injured in possible shooting in Rockledge Police are responding to the scene of a possible shooting in Rockledge.

Update, June 11:

A 9-year-old boy was transported to an Orlando hospital Sunday after a bullet grazed his head while he was traveling on Interstate 95, FLORIDA TODAY news partner News 6 reported.

The boy was in the back seat of a truck driven by his uncle at the time of the incident, according to News 6.

Family members told reporters the boy is recovering.

Original story posted June 10:

Brevard County sheriff’s investigators are working to determine what caused injuries to a child riding in a truck in Rockledge on Sunday. The truck’s driver pulled into the north parking lot of Ruby Tuesday’s about 3 p.m., with sheriff’s deputies and Brevard County Fire Rescue crews arriving moments later.

Witnesses said a truck with what appeared to be a small hole in the back window parked and the child was taken out of the truck with a rag or cloth wrapped around his head. The child's condition was not immediately known.

“There was a little boy who came out of the truck and they were spinning him around, lifting his shirt to make sure he was all right,” said Tina Miller, who had stopped by Ruby Tuesday for a Sunday lunch.

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The sheriff's office did not immediately return calls on the case.

A woman sat under a tree with two other children, at times talking on a cellphone while deputies talked with a man, witnesses said, cradled the child’s head earlier.

Deputies, working on descriptions given by the woman, used the sheriff’s helicopter to help look for two men who may have been driving a black truck south on Interstate 95. That truck was described as driving erratically.

However, no arrests were made Sunday afternoon.

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The child was airlifted from a field at Hans Christian Andersen Elementary School to Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando.

Others at Ruby Tuesday saw the commotion outside of the restaurant, including the arrival of the deputies.

Tom Sandage and Dan Hall were leaving the restaurant and saw others attempting to help the child - who was standing up - and dress what appeared to be a wound to his head. "He had a little rag on his head," said Sandage after hearing the incident may have been gun-related. "It's kind of scary," Sandage said.

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