Detroit: A 3-year-old boy has died after a freeway shooting in Detroit. State police say on Twitter that the boy died Friday morning at a hospital.

A bullet pierced the side of the vehicle he was in just before 7:30 pm. Thursday on the Southfield Freeway near Joy Road. A woman driving the vehicle is an acquaintance of the boy's mother and was not wounded. Police initially described her as the boy's mother.