AURORA, Colo. — A 3-year-old boy is in critical condition after being injured by a gunshot at an apartment near the Kaiser Permanente medical center in Aurora Monday morning, police said.
The boy's mother heard the gunshot, found the boy, and took him to Kaiser Permanente, where police were called around 10:30 a.m. Monday. The boy was then taken to Children's Hospital with "life-threatening injuries," an Aurora police spokesperson told Denver7.
The Aurora Police Department believes the boy was in a back room of the apartment with his father and potentially other children at the time the gun was fired. It was not clear who pulled the trigger.
Police said the father left the scene with another child. In an update just before 5 p.m. Monday, Aurora PD said the father had been arrested in Colorado Springs on previous outstanding warrants. He is not considered a suspect in the shooting, but is wanted for questioning.
No information was provided about possible charges stemming from this incident.
Images captured by Airtracker7 showed a large police presence at Kaiser Permanente on Exposition Avenue and at the nearby residential complex at Exposition and Centrepoint Drive in the moments after the incident.
Editor's note: A previous version of this story had stated the injured boy was 4 years old based on information provided by police that they later corrected.
Denver7's Nicole Brady contributed to this report.
