Overview
- A 3-year-old boy was shot in the head inside a Philadelphia Housing Authority apartment in South Philadelphia on Wednesday night.
- Family members drove the child to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he was listed in critical condition and undergoing surgery.
- Officers followed a trail of blood to a unit on South 26th Street in the Grays Ferry neighborhood.
- At the scene, investigators recovered a gun magazine, but they did not find the firearm.
- Police identified five people inside the apartment and took three in for questioning after conflicting accounts, and they say the shooting may have been self-inflicted.