The account of the shooting came from another child who told investigators Jarvis Watts was playing with a gun when it went off New Year’s evening in the 9400 block of South Wallace Street, the police report states.
A witness told investigators a 9-year-old boy pointed a gun at his head and accidentally shot himself inside a crowded Washington Heights home on New Year’s Day, according to a police report.
Four teens were in a Kia driving north on Prairie Avenue at 57th Street when another car pulled along side them and someone inside the other car opened fire, police say.