14-year-old Jonathon Elliot was shot and killed in Edinburgh on Saturday. Doctors at Riley Hospital for children say they are seeing an, 'unfortunate steady stream of children and adolescents who are shot.'
INDIANAPOLIS — A growing and concerning trend across Indiana shows more children are being shot, according to doctors.
"Ever since Jon was little, he loved everybody. He had his moments, but he loved everybody," Christina Abney said.Edinburgh police say they were called to a home off S. Pleasant Street where they found Elliot inside with a gunshot wound in the chest. He later died at Riley Hospital for Children.Riley's numbers paint a bigger picture of the state of gun violence impacting Indiana's youth.
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