6-year-old girl shot while playing outside north Charlotte home, police say

A 6-year-old girl was shot in the leg Saturday evening while playing outside a home in north Charlotte, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said.

The girl was playing in the 6300 block of Sunstone Drive, which is off Statesville Road, shortly before 7:30 p.m. when someone in a car fired multiple shots toward a home and hit the girl, police said.

Officers applied a tourniquet to the girl’s leg, and she was taken to Carolinas Medical Center with nonlife-threatening injuries.

She is at least the fourth child to be injured by gunfire at a Charlotte home in the past eight months.

In March, a 12-year-old boy was listening to music in bed at an east Charlotte apartment when a bullet fired outside the apartment hit him in the arm, police said. He survived.

A pair of brothers, ages 9 and 11, were injured when gunfire came through their west Charlotte bedroom window in December, police said. One was struck in the hip and the other was shot in the arm.

Police are investigating the Sunstone Drive shooting. Anyone with information should call 911 or Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600, police said.

This story was originally published July 15, 2018 at 4:28 PM.