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Young Boy Shot, 9 Arrested
By azcentral.com
Published: 10/28/2010

Nine men have been arrested in connection with a Phoenix apartment shooting that has left the 6-year-old victim in the hospital 21 days later with a punctured lung and almost all of his stomach missing.

Over the past month, officers with the Phoenix Police Homicide Unit and the Gang Squad tracked down the nine gang members suspected of being involved in the Oct. 6 shooting, which also wounded an adult male bystander.

"I ask all of you in gangs to realize you are destroying people's lives with retaliation - your own, your families and other families," the boy's aunt said at a press conference Wednesday.

The shooting stemmed from an incident five years ago when a gang member assaulted members of a tagging crew, Lt. Charlie Consolian said.

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