5-year-old girl, man wounded in shootings on Detroit’s west side

DETROIT (FOX 2) – Detroit police are working to determine if shootings that wounded both a child and a man on Tuesday evening are connected.

Officers were on patrol around 5:45 pm when they heard gunshots on the city’s west side. Shotspotter led them to Plainview and Westfield avenues, near Evergreen and W. Chicago, where they found spent shell casings but no victims.

A neighbor in the area came outside and told officers that a 5-year-old child had been shot in the leg and was taken to a hospital. Around the same time, a man walked into a Detroit police precinct with a gunshot wound to his shoulder.

Because the shootings happened around the same time in roughly the same area, investigators believe the shootings may be linked.

As the investigation continues, police are frustrated with yet another shooting involving a child.

“While they were here, a run comes in that a 5-year-old had been shot in the left leg,” DPD Dep. Chief Jacqueline Pritchett said. “This is becoming old. I’m really tired of coming to these scenes with these children being shot.”

The victims’ conditions are unknown.