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Victims include a 3-year-old girl near the city's University District. A 7-year-old boy on the cit's east side. And a 10-year-old girl near City Airport.
This year so far, 29 children are wounded or killed in shootings in Detroit, reports Violet Ikonomova of Metro Times:
The tally does not represent an uptick in child shooting victims — sadly, there are usually about two dozen kids shot in Detroit by this time of year. Last year, 59 kids were wounded in shootings in Detroit by year end, 51 were wounded in shootings in 2016, 67 were wounded in 2015, and 55 were wounded in 2014. Between 6 and 8 of the children shot in each of those years died. One child shooting has been fatal so far this year.
Detroit police tell Metro Times two of this year's shootings were self-inflicted, two were accidental and one was deemed "justifiable self-defense."
