A 2-year-old boy was fatally shot inside a southeast Atlanta apartment over the weekend after a gun allegedly fell out of a bag and went off, according to a 911 call obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday.
Atlanta police were called just before 11 a.m. Sunday to Children’s Hughes Spalding Hospital, where they found Jayce Davis with a gunshot wound. He was treated by medical staff but died at the hospital, police said.
In the 911 call, a man informed a dispatcher that an “infant” had arrived at the hospital with a gunshot wound to his head. The caller said the child’s mother and father were with him at the hospital as he was being treated in a trauma room.
2-year-old boy fatally shot in SE Atlanta neighborhood
Information was then forwarded to law enforcement that the shooting happened at an apartment complex in the 100 block of Bell Street, according to investigators. Some officers were sent there, while others went to the hospital, the call stated…