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Relative faces 2 charges in accidental shooting of 2-year-old boy at Brighton home
MONTGOMERY, Alabama A 4-year-old boy who was accidentally shot in the head when a gun discharged at a home was responding Wednesday to voices and squeezing nurses fingers at Children's of Alabama hospital in Birmingham, police say.
While the boy remains in the Intensive Care Unit in critical condition, his relative, 21-year-old Marquis Rashad Abernathy of Midfield, was arrested on charges of reckless endangerment and receiving stolen property.
Police say he left on a bed the pistol that discharged. It was found by the shot boy and his 4-year-old female cousin, police said.
Brighton Police Department Lt. Ray Hubbart said the boy's mother, who is the girl's aunt, dropped by a relative's home to change a diaper. Abernathy wasn't there, but had spent the night there and left the handgun in a back bedroom.
As the mother chatted with a relative in the living room, the children went into the bedroom to prepare to change clothes. The adults heard a "pop" and the little girl ran out of the room. The boy's mother ran to the bedroom and called 911. The boy was rushed to the hospital and doctors determined a bullet had entered and exited his head, said Hubbart.
"I spoke Marquis Abernathy and he accepts full acknowledgment of his actions. He said he had left the gun in the house and gone out," Hubbart said.
Abernathy was released after posting bond in the amount of $1,000. Police officials said the gun that the children found had been stolen in Jefferson County.
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A daily occurrence.
MONTGOMERY, Alabama A 4-year-old boy who was accidentally shot in the head when a gun discharged at a home was responding Wednesday to voices and squeezing nurses fingers at Children's of Alabama hospital in Birmingham, police say.
While the boy remains in the Intensive Care Unit in critical condition, his relative, 21-year-old Marquis Rashad Abernathy of Midfield, was arrested on charges of reckless endangerment and receiving stolen property.
Police say he left on a bed the pistol that discharged. It was found by the shot boy and his 4-year-old female cousin, police said.
Brighton Police Department Lt. Ray Hubbart said the boy's mother, who is the girl's aunt, dropped by a relative's home to change a diaper. Abernathy wasn't there, but had spent the night there and left the handgun in a back bedroom.
As the mother chatted with a relative in the living room, the children went into the bedroom to prepare to change clothes. The adults heard a "pop" and the little girl ran out of the room. The boy's mother ran to the bedroom and called 911. The boy was rushed to the hospital and doctors determined a bullet had entered and exited his head, said Hubbart.
"I spoke Marquis Abernathy and he accepts full acknowledgment of his actions. He said he had left the gun in the house and gone out," Hubbart said.
Abernathy was released after posting bond in the amount of $1,000. Police officials said the gun that the children found had been stolen in Jefferson County.
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A daily occurrence.
