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A child under the age of 5 is in critical condition after being shot Wednesday morning.
The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department received a call about the shooting around 10 a.m. at an apartment in the 4000 block of Willow Avenue.
Officers arrived and found the boy suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Friends of the family told KSHB 41 reporter La'Nita Brooks the child was in surgery Wednesday afternoon.
No update on the child's condition had been given by 6 p.m. Wednesday.
A man was arrested at the scene, placed in handcuffs and rolled in a wheelchair to a police vehicle.
Drucilla Davidson, a friend of the child's family, said the child was able to get an unsecured gun.
"Put these guns up," she said. "No kid should be in the hospital or losing their life to guns. Us as parents, we have to do better."
Police tape remained around the apartment building most of the day as crime scene investigators went over the scene, gathering evidence.
Davidson said she wants to see justice served.
"I hope that the law actually does something about this," she said.
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