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Last updated on Monday, September 21, 2015
(MUNCIE) - Central Indiana police say a 3-year-old Muncie girl was shot and critically injured, allegedly by a teenage boy who had found a handgun.
Police said that after the girl was shot Friday at a public housing complex, her father apparently carried the wounded child to Muncie's downtown fire station.
The Star Press reports the girl was listed in critical but stable condition at a Muncie hospital before she was airlifted to an Indianapolis hospital.
Police were told at the shooting scene that a 13-year-old boy had accidentally fired a handgun, wounding the girl.
Muncie Police Chief Steve Stewart says a boy in his early teens was arrested on a preliminary charge of criminal recklessness. He was being held in Delaware County's juvenile center.
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