A 13-year-old girl was hospitalized in critical condition Sunday after being shot in the leg with an AR-15 rifle, police in Hot Springs said Monday.
Jesse Alan Flemister, 20, was arrested and charged with second-degree battery, police said in a news release.
According to that statement, police were called to a residence on Hillsdale Terrace around 6:45 p.m. and found the girl with a gunshot wound in the left leg. Flemister told police he was playing with the gun when it accidentally discharged one time, the report said.
The girl was taken to St. Vincent Hospital and then flown to Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock in critical condition, according to the report.
There was no word from police on the girl's condition Monday morning.