3-year old recovering after Shoals shooting
FLORENCE, Ala. (WAFF) - A three-year-old in Lauderdale County is recovering after suffering from a gunshot.
According to Sheriff Joe Hamilton, the child found a semi-automatic handgun in their grandparent’s home on May Branch Loop Road Saturday afternoon.
Investigators described the injury as a “grazing wound to the chest.” The child was taken in a private vehicle to a business on Highway 157 north of Florence where emergency medical services intercepted the vehicle. The child was then airlifted from there to the UAB Children’s Hospital.
The child was stable when airlifted and was released from the hospital Sunday.
Sheriff Hamilton says the incident is still under investigation.
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