A 3-year-old girl was shot in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood on Saturday afternoon.
Officers say it happened just after 1 p.m. at a home on the 500 block of East Chelten Avenue.
According to police on the scene, the girl found her father’s unsecured gun and shot herself in the eye.
The child was transported to Einstein Medical Center and was listed in extremely critical condition.
She has since been airlifted to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children.
Police are holding the shooting scene and the transporting vehicle as they investigate the incident.
A weapon has been recovered, and a man has been taken into custody for questioning, according to police.
