6 year old girl injured in shooting incident
A six year old girl had to be taken to the regional hospital following a shooting incident in Southill this afternoon.
The girl was playing in the front garden of a house when she was hit with a shot from a pellet gun on the corner of Collins Avenue and Southill.
It is believed that the occupants of two cars were firing the pellet shots at each other when the child was hit by a stray pellet.
It is not known at this time if the exchange of fire between the two vehicles was feud related.
The child’s injuries were luckily not serious and she has since been discharged from hospital.