A 9-year-old girl is dead after shots were fired into a Mobile residence overnight, WALA is reporting.

The girl was asleep on a couch Monday night inside a home on Rhett Drive when she was shot an unknown number of times.

Several other children were inside the home at the time of the shooting, Mobile police chief Paul Prine told the outlet.

Additional details were not immediately available.

Efforts by AL.com to reach Mobile police for comment were not immediately successful.