A 5-year-old boy was shot in the hand while playing at a Fourth of July party Sunday night in D.C.'s Columbia Heights neighborhood, police say.
A witness told police the boy was playing in the backyard of a home in the 3500 block of 11th Street NW when he suffered an injury to his left hand. They took him to a hospital when it began to swell, according to a police report.
An X-ray revealed there was a bullet lodged in the boy's hand, and officers responded to the emergency room to investigate, the report said.
Police didn't find any evidence at the scene of the shooting.
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The report said the boy was stable.
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