A 2-year-old boy was struck in the head by a stray bullet Monday while playing outside at a Spanish Fork day care, police said Tuesday. The child was hit while playing with several other children in an area enclosed by a vinyl fence at Leap Ahead Childcare Center, located near 2000 North and 300 West in Spanish Fork, police confirmed. Two adults were watching the children at the time. When the boy was struck, he “appeared to stumble” and was seen “bleeding from the face,” a news release states. Day care workers called the child’s parents, who took the boy to a hospital. There, physicians learned through scans that he had a small caliber bullet lodged in his head, police said. The boy was transferred to Primary Children’s Hospital. His condition wasn’t specified but he is considered stable, the release states. He hasn’t been identified. Investigators said the bullet that hit the child may have been fired from a field directly west of the day care facility, the release states. The r...
