South Bend boy, 7, shot in arm when bullets hit home

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Updated: February 3, 2012 11:15PM

SOUTH BEND (AP) — Police say a 7-year-old boy was shot in the arm when a hail of gunfire struck a South Bend home where a woman was inside with her five children.

The boy was hospitalized with a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the arm following Thursday night’s shooting.

South Bend police Capt. Scott Ruszkowski says the boy’s mother suffered a cut to her arm, possibly by flying glass from a shattered window. The boy injured in the shooting was sitting with his mother and a sibling at the time of the attack.

Neighbors say they heard the sound of a car driving by the home and then between five and seven gunshots about 10:20 p.m. Thursday.