Cascade County child injured in accidental shooting
MTN
and last updated 2021-03-15 13:57:05-04
GREAT FALLS â A six-year-old child was shot on Sunday in Cascade County.
Cascade County Sheriff Jesse Slaughter said in a news release that at about 2:50 p.m., deputies were dispatched to a residence on Hevron Road north of Great Falls in response to the incident.
While they were heading there, deputies met up with the child s mother at the intersection of Wilson Road and Bootlegger; she was taking the child to the hospital in her vehicle. The victim was then taken to the hospital via Mercy Flight helicopter due to sustaining injuries to his arm and rib cage area.
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