ELYRIA, Ohio – January 2, 2009
Elyria Police Lt. A.D. Eichenlaub says that Najia Boone was critically wounded when the weapon went off Sunday. Eichenlaub says the siblings were struggling over the .22-caliber pistol in an upstairs bedroom of the family's Elyria home.
A nursing supervisor at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland says Boone was in critical condition on Sunday night.
Police say the child's brother had taken the weapon from a relative's home on Saturday.
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