LORAIN, Ohio – ABC REPORTS
Lorain Police say 24-year-old Angelica Melendez said her three-year-old daughter was shot in the head by her four-year-old brother, who didn’t know it was a real gun.
“They didn’t know what it was, they were messing with,” Melendez told a 911 dispatcher just after 10 a.m. on Sunday.
The girl is in critical condition at Rainbow Babies and Children Hospital.
Police said the 911 call was filled with chaos and confusion caused by the dad who lied to police, telling them two men came to the door wearing hooded sweatshirts, shot at him and the “bullet struck the girl,” according to the police report.
Police said the father was heard speaking in Spanish in the background, telling the mother to say men who were breaking in and fired a gun.
