7-year-old girl shot on Long Island

HEMPSTEAD, Long Island (WABC) -- A 7-year-old girl has been shot on Long Island.

Police responded to a home on Evans Avenue in Hempstead on Saturday afternoon to discover the young girl with a gunshot wound to her arm.

She was taken to the hospital for treatment.

Authorities are still investigating the circumstances of the shooting.

No arrests have been made.

On Friday, a three-year-old girl was shot while her father was taking her out of day care in Brooklyn. Police are currently still looking for the suspect,

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