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A three-year-old was struck by a bullet fired from a neighboring apartment in West Sacramento Friday afternoon, West Sacramento police reported.
Police said officers responded at approximately 1:50 p.m. to a call of shots fired in the 3400 block of Evergreen Circle. It was determined the gunfire came from a nearby apartment and a bullet had gone through a wall hitting the toddler.
The toddler was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
The suspected shooter was located and arrested and police said no others were thought to have been involved. The person’s identity was not released.
This story was originally published June 19, 2026 at 6:32 PM.
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Allison Gibson is the service journalism and consumer editor for The Sacramento Bee. She joined The Bee in 2026 after spending four years at a newspaper in Santa Rosa. She has spent most of her career in TV newsrooms across the country, including a 24-hour local cable news channel and an NBC affiliate in Iowa. She grew up in Pittsburgh and attended Ohio University.