Child dead in North County shooting

18 after someone opened fired into her home through an open window, police said.

St. Louis County police spokesman Shawn McGuire says a 21-month-old boy was shot about 1 p.m. Tuesday at a home in Hanley Hills. The as-yet-unidentified boy was pronounced dead at St. Mary’s Hospital, police said.

Police said officers made an arrest, but would not disclose that person’s name or charges until the case is presented to prosecutors.

“As a parent myself, it chokes you up to hear about it happening again…but we don’t know if it was an accident or a homicide”, Schellman said. Investigators were called to Canfield Cross near Hudson where a deceased man was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting.

The latest shooting happened Tuesday in Hanley Hills.

The boy’s mother is 24 years old and the toddler who died was her only child, a woman who identified herself as a relative of the family told the local newspaper.