Young girl shot in DC after younger brother ‘accessed a gun’, police say

A girl “believed to be five years old” is in critical condition at a D.C. hospital for a gunshot wound in the presence of her younger brother Monday night, police said.

D.C. police Chief Pamela Smith said officers were called to a report of a shooting at an apartment in the unit block of Galveston Street in Southwest around 6:30 p.m.

She said officers found “a young female victim, believed to be five years old” shot in the upper-body and immediately provided first aid before emergency crews rushed her to a hospital.