A young teenage girl was shot in her ankle on the Fourth of July while walking down Bowdoin Street in Dorchester.

Police responded at 7:55 a.m. Wednesday to Boston Children’s Hospital in Roxbury, where a girl who was shot the night before in Dorchester was being treated.

The girl told officers that she was walking in the 200-block of Bowdoin when, the police report summarizes, “she felt a sharp pain to her right ankle … she looked down and saw blood coming.” She said she was unable to walk from the pain.

At first, the child and her friend believed that the injury was from a stray firework, according to the report, but police noted it was an apparent gunshot that fractured her fibula. Police canvassed the area “to no avail.”

Police started Wednesday morning very early with a response to the area of Edgewater Drive and River Street in Mattapan for reports of multiple people shot.

At the scene shortly after 2 a.m., police found five shooting victims, but none of the victims appeared to suffer from life-threatening injuries, according to the Boston PD. Boston EMS transported three of the victims to an area hospital, while the two others drove themselves.

Police checked in on a car they say was attempting to leave the area and allege they took possession of a loaded Lorcin L 380 pistol. Two occupants of the vehicle were arrested.

Police say they also arrested a third suspect in the area who they allege was carrying a loaded H&K VP9.

Hakeem Ramey, 29, of Brockton; Nashaly Seguinot, 25, of Boston; and Samuel Roman, 24, of Boston; were arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a firearm. Police expect all to be arraigned in Dorchester District Court.