PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police say a suspect is in custody in the shooting of a teenage girl hit in the face by a gunshot in northeast Philadelphia.
A police spokesman says officers responded shortly before 10:30 a.m. Monday to an address in the city’s Rhawnhurst neighborhood.
Officers found a girl about 14 years old with a gunshot wound to the face. She was taken to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital, where her condition wasn’t immediately available.
Police said a suspect is in custody and a weapon was recovered. No further information was immediately released.
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