2-year-old finds gun dropped on day care playground and shoots herself, Nevada cops say

A 2-year-old girl continues to fight for her life in a Las Vegas hospital after accidentally shooting herself with a gun found on a day care playground, Nevada police told news outlets.

A teenage boy fleeing a shooting on a bus dropped the gun after hopping a wall into the playground Friday, Nov. 3, police told KTNV. The teen shot an 18-year-old man during an altercation, police said.

The 18-year-old was hospitalized in stable condition, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

A toddler found the dropped gun a short time later and accidentally shot herself in the chest, police told NBC News.

“I mean, nobody expects their 2-year-old to be shot,” family friend Tawnya Rosenthal told KVVU.

The child is now in a medically-induced coma and is expected to be in the hospital for at least two months, Rosenthal told KLAS.

“No child should have to have that, that is a big battle for such a little baby,” she told the station.

The teen accused of shooting the bus passenger and dropping the gun was later found and arrested, police told KTNV.