July 19, 2008
Infant wasn't hit by stray bullet
Baltimore police said yesterday that a 2-month-old baby boy was not grazed by a stray bullet, as had been feared, but rather probably suffered a minor head injury caused by scraping against something in his Southeast Baltimore home.
Witnesses reported hearing three gunshots about 6 p.m. Monday in the 6100 block of Plantview Way in O'Donnell Heights. One bullet hit a home on the block, and relatives grabbed the 2-month-old child and ran outside.
Detective Donny Moses, a police spokesman, said doctors determined that the infant's wound was probably caused when relatives grabbed him and ran from the house. After analyzing its trajectory, police investigators determined that the bullet that entered the house could not have hit the child, Moses said.
Police initially took two men into custody for questioning, but no arrests had been made, Moses said.
Gus G. Sentementes
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