Akron PD: 8-Year-Old Gunshot Victim Expected to Be OK

AKRON, Ohio (News Talk 1480 WHBC) – A couple of shootings in Akron Thursday evening.

One of them involves a young child.

Akron police say an 8-year-old boy does not have life-threatening injuries after being shot by another child handling a gun.

He was stable, despite being shot in the upper body.

The youngster was shot on Hardesty Blvd, but then driven to another address by his mother.

And an 18-year-old woman was grazed by a bullet as two groups exchanged gunfire at the Spring Hill Apartment complex on Everton Drive.