A 12-year-old girl shot her 8-year-old neighbor Saturday afternoon on the Far South Side after saying the gun was “not real.”
The 8-year-old was playing with her 7-year-old sister in a backyard in the 9100 block of South Paxton Avenue in the Pill Hill area about 4 p.m. when their 12-year-old next-door neighbor came over and wanted the girls to play, according to a police report.
The 12-year-old went to her home briefly and returned with a gun and began playing with it, telling the others “it’s not real,” according to a police report.
The 12-year-old girl then fired a round into the ground and a fragment hit the 8-year-old, causing a graze wound to her right thigh, the report said. She was taken in good condition to Comer Children’s Hospital.
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Earlier, police had said the victim was 6.
One shell casing was found and police located the 12-year-old girl’s mother but the gun had not been found.
Area 2 detectives were investigating.