Stray bullets injures 1-year-old girl\nINDIANAPOLIS -- A 1-year-old girl suffered a facial abrasion after a stray bullet broke glass in her bedroom during what police say was an apparent street shootout.\nNo one was seriously injured in the shooting Monday night, although paramedics treated the girl for a laceration under her right eye. An investigation was continued by Indianapolis police Tuesday.\nPolice arrested Bernard R. Williamson, 21, on two preliminary charges, including felony criminal recklessness.\nNeighbors described hearing gunshots Monday evening after a teenager was attacked by other youths. Several cars were pierced with bullet holes.
Missing Attica girl found in Oklahoma\nATTICA, Ind. -- Police have found a 7-year-old Attica girl who had been missing for four months after receiving a tip she was with her mother in Oklahoma.\nHer mother, Bobette Carr, was arrested Monday and the girl was placed in protective custody, said Gene Snoeberger, chief of the Attica Police Department.\nKatelynn Carr was reported missing April 6. She was last seen with her mother, who was involved in a custody dispute with the girl's father and recently had missed a court hearing.\nPolice received a tip Monday through the Vanished Children's Alliance that the girl was with her mother in Oklahoma. Police found them hours later in a church in Midwest City, Okla.\nBobette Carr was being held in jail awaiting extradition, while her daughter waited to be picked up by her father.\nState reports 261 fireworks injuries\nINDIANAPOLIS -- A total of 261 people in Indiana were injured by fireworks this year from May 13 through July 19, the state Department of Health reported Tuesday.\nNew requirements adopted by state legislators requires doctors, hospitals and outpatient surgery centers to report all fireworks-related injuries they treat.\nAbout 180 of those injuries were reported in the first week of July.\n"More than one-half of all injuries involved children and adolescents, including some bystanders," said Dr. Charlene Graves, medical director for injury prevention at the State Department of Health.\nThe youngest person to suffer a fireworks injury was 6 weeks old. A 1-year-old also had to be hospitalized for burns, the report said.\nThe most common injury was burned hands. About one in five injuries involved the eyes.\nSparklers, rockets and firecrackers were associated with 63 percent of all injuries reported. \nUsing fireworks on private property accounts for more than 80 percent of the injuries reported.
