9-year-old boy shot in the neck in Lauderhill
MIAMI - Lauderhill police detectives are investigating how a child was shot in the neck on Tuesday night.
Police said it happened at around 9 p.m. at the Riviera Hills Apartments in the 5300 block of N.W. 19th Street.
Officers were sent to check out a call of a child juvenile bleeding from his neck. When they got to the address, they found a nine-year-old boy who was unresponsive and bleeding from an unknown injury to the neck.
He was taken to the Broward Health Medical Center where it was determined he had been shot. The boy was listed in critical condition.
"I don't know the guy, but whoever he is, he needs to turn himself in if they haven't already caught him. This is sad, I have a baby myself, I wouldn't want that to happen to mine," said a woman who lives in the complex.
Police said the gunshot came from an adjacent unit. So far, no one has been charged.
