An 11-year-old Brooklyn boy shot and injured last week was the apparent victim of gunplay with his older sister, police officials disclosed Tuesday.
Police found the youngster with a bullet wound to his right forearm in the stairwell of an apartment building within the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Houses on April 8. The slug apparently passed through the child’s right forearm, causing a fracture, law enforcement sources said.
However, police now believe the youngster was shot by his own sister as they played around the building. The siblings had apparently taken off school that Monday due to the solar eclipse. Yet as they played police say things took a dark turn. The 13-year-old girl was arrested on April 10 and is charged with criminal possession of a weapon, police officials said.
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