Toddler hit by stray bullet in Prince George’s
A toddler was hospitalized after being struck by a stray bullet outside an apartment complex in Glenarden. The 23-month-old boy, who was in his mother’s arms at the time of the shooting, was listed as in critical but stable condition on Sunday. Officers responded to the call about 9:15 p.m. Saturday to the 3000 block of Brightseat Road and found the boy shot in the upper body, said Prince George’s County police spokesman Evan Baxter. The incident occurred outside a garden-style apartment community located directly north of FedEx Field.
Baxter said police are investigating the shooting and by Sunday afternoon had developed a “person of interest” in the case. He said he did not know whether authorities have connected the case with last month’s drive-by shooting in the same Glenarden neighborhood.
Police are still investigating that July 31 incident, in which one man died and three others were wounded.
65 protesters arrested outside White House
Police arrested 65 environmentalist protesters outside the White House on Saturday on the first day of a planned two-week protest over a proposed oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast, the Associated Press reported.
The protest of the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels is scheduled to run through Sept. 3. Protesters are asking President Obama to deny a permit for the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline slated to go through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas to refineries in Houston and Port Arthur, Texas.
U.S. Park Police spokesman David Schlosser could not immediately be reached for comment Sunday.
— Liz Farmer
