A young child is clinging to life in central Iowa after a shooting overnight.

Des Moines police were called to an eastside residential neighborhood just before 11 last night on reports of gunfire, and then got a 911 call that a child had been shot.

Officers found a two-year-old who’d been sitting inside the house was suffering from a bullet wound.

The child was rushed to the hospital in critical condition.

Evidence indicates more than a dozen shots were fired at the house from outside.

Early this morning, a wrecked vehicle was found on Interstate 80 in Dallas County.

Evidence led investigators back to Des Moines where five people were taken into custody and two guns were recovered.

Radio Iowa