Wild Moment Toddler Waves Loaded Gun Around, Points It At Self Then Pulls The Trigger
Video obtained by On Patrol: Live shows the heart stopping moment a diaper-clad toddler plays with a loaded handgun in an apartment building hallway, and even points it at himself and pulls the trigger.
Neighbors who saw the boy last Saturday called police, and authorities arrived to search the apartment where he lived with his father.
A 9mm Smith and Wesson pistol was eventually found in the back of a desk drawer, and the father was arrested. Authorities said the father could be charged with child neglect. The boy was not harmed in the incident, as the bullets had not yet been chambered in the gun.
In the clip, the young boy can be seen wearing a diaper and aimlessly wandering around the stairwell outside his closed apartment door and carrying the loaded pistol.
As he walked about, he could be seen pointing the gun at doors and in the air, and rapidly pulling the trigger as he went.
At one point he even pointed the gun at himself and pulled the trigger.
The incident took place in Beech Grove, Indiana, which is just outside of Indianapolis.
In the On Patrol: Live segment, police can be seen speaking to the boy’s father, who insisted he did not own a gun or have one in the apartment, but that his cousin who was staying with him did own one.
Cops could be heard asking the toddler ‘Where’d you put down that toy?’ as they searched the apartment.
The father told police he and his wife had both been sick recently and that he had been trying to stay up with the child to take care of him, but that his illness must have distracted him while the child got his hands on the weapon and made it into the hallway.
Police eventually found the weapon in the apartment after their search. The boy was returned to his other, with whom he lived full time.
On Patrol: Live commentator Sean Larkin said seeing the footage behind such an incident was ‘very different’ than just reading about it.
‘We hear these types of stories where kids come across this firearms, these horrific results that do happen sometimes, but seeing it on video is definitely very different,’ he said.’
Commentator Curtis Wilson said things could have easily gone differently without the intervention of watchful neighbors.
‘Which is good that citizens or neighbors got involved, because it could be really a tragic situation,’ Wilson said.
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