TOLEDO, Ohio – A Detroit teenager has been charged in connection with the shooting death of a 3-year-old in Toledo, officials said.
Police said 3-year-old Malachi Barnes was riding in a car on Nov. 22 on I-75 in Downtown Toledo when someone in another vehicle opened fire, according to NBC affiliate WNWO.
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Malachi was in the back seat of his father's car when another vehicle pulled alongside and someone started shooting, according to police.
He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead, officials said.
Prosecutors didn't specify the 17-year-old's involvement in the shooting.
The teenager appeared in juvenile court Friday on a complicity to murder charge and entered a plea of not guilty.