17-year-old charged with shooting girl, 5

BALTIMORE, July 5 (UPI) -- A Baltimore teenager was charged Saturday with wounding a 5-year-old girl who was shot in the head as she walked home with her aunt, police said.

Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefield III said Lamont Davis, 17, will be charged as an adult, The Baltimore Sun reported. The charges included attempted murder, assault and reckless endangerment.

Investigators said Davis and other teenagers were hanging out Thursday when they got into a fight. Davis allegedly went to get a gun, returned with a semi-automatic and opened fire.

The commissioner said the shooting was not drug- or gang-related.

"This wasn't because people were trying to achieve hierarchy in La Cosa Nostra or Bloods or Crips or whatever. It's just people being dumb," Bealefeld said at a news conference Saturday. "Two young men being insanely stupid."

The girl was in the pediatric intensive care unit at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore.