Girl, 5, Grazed by Bullet While Asleep in Her Bed
A 5-year-old Long Beach girl, sleeping in her home, was unaware that she was grazed by a stray bullet early Wednesday and her injury went unnoticed for eight hours, police said.
The girl was not awakened by the 12:30 a.m. incident, in which one of the bullets fired at a neighboring home in an apparent gang drive-by shooting penetrated the wall of the bedroom, Long Beach Lt. Ken Schack said.
The girl, whose name was not released, “took a bullet fragment in the corner of her cheek. The bullet was going pretty slow and it was stopped by the flesh,” Schack said.
The girl’s wound was discovered by her parents at 8:30 a.m. and she was taken to St. Mary Medical Center, where she was treated and released.
“She was very lucky,” Schack said. No one else was hurt and no suspects were in custody, he said.
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