A 7-year-old girl was hospitalized after being shot Saturday on Milwaukee's west side.

The girl was transported to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, and the child's condition wasn't known, Milwaukee Fire Deputy Chief Erich Roden said.

The shooting occurred at about 3 p.m. in a residential area in the 6500 block on W. Keefe Ave. Parkway, about a quarter-mile east of W. Appleton Ave.

Police at the scene did not release any other details.

But a woman identifying herself as the girl's mother said the child suffered multiple wounds, apparently from buckshot from a shotgun.

She said her daughter and the girl's twin brother were out playing in the alley with an older brother, 12.

She said the older boy rushed into the house and told her, " 'Mom, they shot your baby.' "

The woman said she ran out the back door and saw her daughter bleeding on the ground from her stomach and arm. "Bird shot was spread throughout her body," the woman said.

She offered no other details and neither the woman nor police said anything about a possible suspect.

WISN-TV was reporting Saturday night that there had been an altercation near where the girl was shot and that others were transported to the hospital.