Crime & Safety

Seven-Year-Old Boy Shot In South LA

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting of a little boy in South Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES, CA — A 7-year-old boy suffered a leg wound Wednesday in a shooting in South Los Angeles

The gunfire was reported at about 2:30 p.m. in the 200 block of West 91st Street, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The boy was taken to a hospital with what appears to be a non-life- threatening injury, police said.

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The circumstances that led up to the shooting were not immediately available.

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