"When you get a kid with something like this, your heart breaks,"
Boy, 3, is shot inside a Cheltenham apartment
Cheltenham Township police were investigating the shooting last night of a 3-year-old boy inside a unit in the Lynnewood Gardens apartment complex.
The shooting was reported about 7:30 p.m. in the 7700 block of Wagner Way. The child was first taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center and then transferred to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. His condition was not immediately known. No names were released.
Police were interviewing the father last night trying to determine how the boy was shot. No charges had been filed against the father.
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3-year-old child killed in Cheltenham
By Stephanie L. Arnold
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
A 3-year-old boy who died after being shot in the chest last night inside the Lynnewood Gardens apartment complex has been identified as Jacob Rivera.
Cheltenham Police Chief John Norris said the incident is under investigation.
Norris said the incident was reported around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, shortly after the boy was shot at his home in the 7700 block of Wagner Way, in the township's Elkins Park section.
Police said the father was enroute with the boy to the hospital, when he flagged down a private ambulance. Norris said the ambulance was already carrying a patient, but they dispatched Cheltenham police for assistance. The boy was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, where he died at 9:55 p.m., Norris said.
"When you get a kid with something like this, your heart breaks," Norris said.
Norris said no one was in custody and no charges have been filed.