{"id":706230,"date":"2026-04-05T09:33:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/706230\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:33:54","slug":"teenager-in-custody-after-his-3-year-old-nephew-was-shot-in-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/706230\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager in custody after his 3-year-old nephew was shot in the head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA 17-year-old boy is in custody following the shooting of his 3-year-old nephew in South Philly this week.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police were called at around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday to the 2100 block of 26th Street, where they found a trail of blood leading to one of the homes, officials\u00a0<a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/video\/child-in-critical-condition-after-possible-accidental-shooting-in-south-philadelphia-police-say\/\" style=\"font-size: 1.2em;\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>.\u00a0The toddler was found on the second floor with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in the head.\n<\/p>\n<p><b>MORE<\/b>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/bucks-county-rape-andrew-gallo-women-dating-sentenced-prison\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bucks County man who drugged and raped 12 women he met on dating sites sentenced to decades in prison<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During their search of the house, police located a gun magazine and an inoperable ghost gun stored in a shoebox, but they were unable to locate the firearm used in the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>District Attorney Larry Krasner said during a news conference\u00a0Thursday that the boy, who was not identified, remained in critical condition, and he\u00a0urged the community to assist officials in locating the gun.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt is outrageous that any 3-year-old would be harmed this way,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are a lot of things that we as a community and we as parents and family members need to do, and they weren\u2019t done here.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe toddler&#8217;s uncle, who was also not identified, was arrested and charged with a felony weapon offense, reckless endangerment, tampering of evidence and obstruction of justice. The teenager was also on juvenile supervision for a prior gun offense at the time of his arrest.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mother of the 3-year-old was in the home at the time, but prosecutors would not reveal whether she or any other family members were cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy is in custody following the shooting of his 3-year-old nephew in South Philly this week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":706231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,11307,4219,35033,55839,1448,2830,1311,101,101681,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-706230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-arrests","tag-crime","tag-firearms","tag-larry-krasner","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-shooting","tag-south-philly","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116351419477404052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}