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From the Alexandria Town Talk, LA (http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050712/NEWS01/50712001/1002):
Child injured in traffic stop
A routine traffic stop Monday night ended with a 3-year-old shot in the thigh and two Alexandria men arrested.
Keldric Mitchel, 19, was arrested on charges of negligent injuring and Kedrick Winnfield, 23, was charged with a traffic violation, Alexandria Police said.
Around midnight Monday, officers stopped the car Mitchel and Winnfield were traveling in on Monroe Street, after the vehicle failed to stop at a red light. According to police reports, Mitchel was trying to conceal a gun from the officers when it went off, striking the child in the thigh.
The child was a passenger in the car.
The child was taken to a local emergency room for treatment.
Originally published July 12, 2005
Child injured in traffic stop
A routine traffic stop Monday night ended with a 3-year-old shot in the thigh and two Alexandria men arrested.
Keldric Mitchel, 19, was arrested on charges of negligent injuring and Kedrick Winnfield, 23, was charged with a traffic violation, Alexandria Police said.
Around midnight Monday, officers stopped the car Mitchel and Winnfield were traveling in on Monroe Street, after the vehicle failed to stop at a red light. According to police reports, Mitchel was trying to conceal a gun from the officers when it went off, striking the child in the thigh.
The child was a passenger in the car.
The child was taken to a local emergency room for treatment.
Originally published July 12, 2005