PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police say a 9-year-old has been hospitalized after he accidentally shot his left hand in south Philadelphia.

Chief Inspector Scott Small tells The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/1VcEshL ) that police were called just before 10 p.m. on Thursday to the city's Grays Ferry neighborhood, where the boy wounded himself in his parents' bedroom.Small says the boy found a handgun behind the bed and it went off, shooting him in the hand. Investigators found the gun on the bed, a bullet hole in the wall and a trail of blood leading out the front door.The boy's mother took him to a hospital, where he's in stable condition.It's unclear whether the gun was legally owned or how it was beings stored.---Information from: The Philadelphia Inquirer,

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