8-year-old shot in the face, 12-year-old in custody

St. Louis police got to the scene within 2 minutes of the 911 call at about 7:30p Monday night. Officers rushed the injured child to the hospital in the back of their squad car.

Police spokesperson Mitch McCoy, “When they know that an innocent person, especially a child, needs life saving care, they will do whatever they need to do to get to the hospital, and that’s. Exactly what happened tonight.”

Investigators say the kids were playing with a gun when it went off in the 3400 block of Cherokee. The boy is expected to be okay…

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