A 2-year-old girl was sitting atop her father’s shoulders while on a walk in the family’s Kenton neighborhood Friday when she was shot in the backside with what Portland police say was a high-powered pellet gun.

June Krumbein was treated at OHSU Hospital on Friday. An X-ray revealed a pellet had lodged deep under the skin on her bottom. She was released from the hospital and is recovering at home with her parents, Adam and Kourtney Krumbein.

Adam Krumbein said he had Friday off from work and decided to take in the fresh air and sunshine with his daughter. The pair were walking west on North Willis Boulevard, away from Peninsular Avenue, when the girl cried out.

He said he took her off his shoulders and tried to figure out what was wrong. He thought perhaps she’d been stung by a bee.

“I discovered she was bleeding out of her bottom,” said Krumbein, 37, who is vice president of marketing for a company that makes antennas for military and law enforcement applications. "It looked like a puncture wound.”

He returned home and called the pediatrician’s office. A nurse told the couple to take their daughter to the emergency room.

It was there that the X-ray revealed a pellet under her skin, Krumbein said.

Krumbein said he doesn’t remember anyone walking near them at the time of the incident. He said he heard a faint sound about the time June cried out.

He said he and his wife are sickened by what happened.

“She’s a little innocent kid who doesn’t know there is a single thing wrong in the world,” he said. “And now she has been shot. Granted she wasn’t shot by a big regular handgun or something, but still she’s been shot. It’s hard to process.”

In an interview Saturday, he said June doesn’t appear to be in pain. She’s too young to grasp what happened.

“She’s not aware of it,” he said. “She just knows she got hurt and she went to see a bunch of nice doctors and they took care of her.”

Portland police responded to the hospital after receiving a report that a child had been injured by a pellet gun. Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to call the non-emergency line at 503-823-3333 (reference case number 20-116568) or e-mail Officer West Helfrich at West.Helfrich@portlandoregon.gov.

-- Noelle Crombie; ncrombie@oregonian.com; 503-276-7184; @noellecrombie

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