A 3-year-old boy is dead and his mother is injured after a Thursday night shooting outside an apartment complex in the Langley Park neighborhood of Maryland.
Authorities said it happened in the 1400 block of Kanawha Street around 5:30 p.m.
A detective working in the area responded to the scene after hearing gunshots, officials said. That’s when they found the child and young mother.
The mother was taken to a D.C. hospital. The 3-year-old was taken to Children’s National Hospital, where he later died.
At a news conference, Prince George’s County Deputy Chief Barry Stanton called the shooting a “senseless act of violence that no community should accept, ever.”
“This is trauma not only to the family but in the community,” he said, vowing to “do all we can to get the perpetrators of this senseless act of violence.”
The mother of the child was in stable condition after receiving treatment on Thursday night, according to Assistant Police Chief Vernon Hale III. He urged anyone with information about the suspects to come forward.
He said the child did not deserve to die “because someone wants to come out here and play with guns.”
“I can only pray that they weren’t trying to kill a child,” Hale said.
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