Southeast : 4-Year-Old in Car Hurt by Stray Bullet
It’s every parent’s Fourth of July nightmare.
Smitty Harris, 45, of Stanton was driving home Tuesday evening with his family from an Independence Day celebration when he heard a loud noise and pulled off the 605 Freeway in Cerritos to see if something had hit his car, officials said.
Harris found a shattered window and blood on his 4-year-old son’s face and neck. He rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors discovered that the child had been wounded in the neck by a small-caliber bullet, said Sheriff’s Lt. J. Carlson. The boy was reported in satisfactory condition Wednesday.
Carlson said it was unclear whether the bullet was fired from a passing car or if it was a celebratory salvo fired by a Fourth of July reveler.
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