A 5-year-old girl in D.C. is in critical condition after her 3-year-old brother somehow got access to a gun and it went off, shooting her in the chest Monday evening, police say.
The shooting happened inside an apartment building in the unit block of Galveston Street SW in the Bellevue neighborhood, not far from the Maryland border.
A man who was in the apartment watching the children at the time has been arrested, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said. He was set to be charged with cruelty to children, Smith said.
