COLUMBUS, Ohio — A toddler is recovering in the hospital after he was shot while sitting inside his southeast Columbus home on Saturday night.
Columbus police have not made any arrests in the shooting.
The toddler is expected to survive.
“It just felt like the world stopped again,” said Dajhon Kelley, one of the toddler's cousins.
Kelley had just left the house on Ellsworth Avenue in the Driving Park neighborhood when he got several calls saying his 2-year-old cousin had been shot while sitting in the toddler's mom's bed.
“Talking about the baby, and I said there's no way. I was just over there a couple of hours ago,” Kelley said.
The front of the house is riddled with at least nine bullet holes, including one through the air conditioner. Kelley said that was the bullet that struck his cousin.
“It was a heart-dropping experience and I had to run over here to make sure my cousins were OK,” Kelley said.
Kelley explained there were at least four other kids in the house when someone was outside and started shooting.
“I just want to live in safer environment. It's not fair for the kids in the house and for everybody in there were kids,” Kelley said.
He said his cousin is usually full of energy and loves getting into things he shouldn't.
Kelley is praying his cousin is released from the hospital soon and fully recovers.
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He hopes the suspects will do the right thing and turn themselves in.
“You might as well just come forward. It's not fair for anyone to be put in that situation, especially with the kids in the house. You chose to do violence at the wrong place at the wrong time," he said.