7-year-old shot in his home is still in hospital and Hamilton police still need leads

The seven-year-old Hamilton boy who was shot multiple times when someone fired at his house is still recovering in hospital.

Police say the boy was inside his Gordon Street home in Hamilton's central lower city when someone in the rear yard shot at the house. It was around 7:53 p.m. Jan. 23, and the boy was inside. He was shot multiple times and went to hospital in critical condition.

Hamilton Police Service said in a release Tuesday that he's still recovering. Investigators,meanwhile, are still looking for leads.

Someone targeted the home, police say, and the child was "an unintended victim."

Police saidthatat the time of the shooting, there were people present inthe home who are known to police.

In Tuesday's update, police said while theboy's family is cooperating with investigators, that's not the case with everyone in the house.

"There has been varying degrees of cooperation from the other individuals in the residence at the time," police said in a media release. "Police believe there are people who know what happened and encourage those individuals to come forward."

Whoever fired the gun was in the rear yard of the house, police say. That person ran to a waiting vehicle on Gordon Street and sped east. Police say it was a light-coloured four-door sedan.

Anyone with information should call Det.Daryl Reid at 905-546-3825, or Crime Stoppers.