WICHITA, Kan. — Police say a 12-year-old is hospitalized after being accidentally shot in a Wichita apartment by an adult carelessly handling a gun.
Wichita police say in a news release that the shooting happened around 8 p.m. Monday, when officers responded to reports of a shooting at the Magnolia Woods Apartments. Arriving officers found a 12-year-old girl with a gunshot wound to her arm and shoulder. The girl was taken to a Wichita hospital and is expected to recover. Police arrested 23-year-old Christian Lehl, whom investigators say was caring for the girl, his niece, along with another niece and nephew, all under 14.
Investigators say Lehl was showing the gun to an 18-year-old friend when it accidentally fired.
