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Police investigating after 3-year-old suffers self-inflicted BB gun wound

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BALTIMORE — A 3-year-old boy is in the hospital after shooting himself with a BB gun.

Just before 8 p.m., Baltimore Police responded to a local hospital for reports of a child who had been shot with a BB gun.

Officers discovered that the 3-year-old boy shot himself with a BB gun inside a house in the 1500 block of Richland Street.

According to police, the boy is stable.

Detectives are investigating how the boy got a hold of the BB gun and who was watching him at the time.

Child Abuse detectives are investigating this incident.