Bullet lodges in US boy's head
An 11-year-old waiting to line up for his baseball team photo was shot in the head, despite his family thinking he'd been hit by a ball.
Devante Kelly was in a stable condition at Brookdale University Hospital, New York.
Doctors removed the bullet, which lodged between the boy's skin and skull, and he was expected to recover, his family said.
"Thank God he's fine. He has an angel," said his mother, Angela Walters.
Devante was on the wooden terracing crowded with players in a field near Starrett City, a 140-acre apartment complex on Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn. The boys were waiting for their team photo to kick off the summer season when he cried out in pain.
"All the while he's in the emergency room for two, three hours, we're thinking it's just a baseball that hit him," Ms Walters said.
"When the doctor went to put (in) staples, she saw something ... and we took a CAT scan, and there was a bullet in his head."
There were no reports of shots fired, and investigators had no motive or suspects.
Police were looking into whether the bullet was fired from afar and possibly ricocheted.