The Leap Ahead Daycare is shown Tuesday, May 23, 2023, in Spanish Fork, Utah. A 2-year-old boy was shot in the head by a stray bullet while playing outside the day care in Utah, the facility's owner and authorities said. Spanish Fork police believe the bullet came from a pellet or air gun shot from a farming field across the street west of the facility, Lt. Clay Slaymaker said. struck in the head by a stray bulletOn Wednesday morning, Spanish Fork police announced that “an adult male ...
After the investigation is completed, the Spanish Fork City prosecutors office will make a decision about possible charges. The suspect’s name has not been released. The victim was playing with several other children in a fenced-in area outside the Leap Ahead Childcare Center, located near 2000 North and 300 West in Spanish Fork. Two adults were watching the children at the time, and they told police the boy “appeared to stumble” and was seen “bleeding from the face,” a news release states.
Unaware that the boy had been shot, daycare workers called the child’s parents, who took the boy to a hospital. Scans there showed the boy had a small caliber bullet lodged in his head, police said. The 2-year-old was transferred to Primary Children’s Hospital. According to police, the boy remained hospitalized Wednesday morning, and he is “in stable condition and improving.”