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3-Year-Old Girl Shot In Calumet Heights; Person Of Interest In Custody

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A 3-year-old girl was shot in the wrist Saturday afternoon at a home in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on the South Side.

Police said the girl was inside a home on the 1300 block of East 89th Street around 3:10 p.m., when a witness heard a gunshot and found the girl with a gunshot wound to the left wrist.

It was not immediately clear who fired the shot.

The girl was taken to Comer Children's Hospital in good condition.

A weapon was recovered at the scene, and Area Two detectives were questioning a person of interest Saturday night.

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