7-year-old girl shot in Southwest Baltimore

A 7-year-old girl was shot while sitting in the backseat of a car in Southwest Baltimore, Baltimore Police said. The girl is currently in critical and unstable condition at University of Maryland Shock Trauma. The shooting was first reported by a tweet from the department's account at 2:56 p.m. Thursday. The tweet said the shooting happened near the intersection of Edmondson Avenue and Loudon Avenue, in the city's Edmonson Village neighborhood. The girl was shot while sitting in the passenger side rear seat of a Honda, Baltimore Police's Public Information Officer T.J. Smith said from the scene. Another child sitting in the rear seat of the car was unharmed. At least one adult was also in the car. Smith said the shots entered the car from the rear. “She’s fighting for her life right now because there’s a coward in the neighborhood who thought that it was OK to get involved in some sort of shooting incident,” Smith said.