The United States is still reeling from the shocking case that occurred last week, in which a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher during an argument in a classroom at an elementary school in the city of Newport News, and today (Monday) there was a new uproar as a camera recorded a 2-year-old toddler holding a 9 mm.
The bizarre event took place in a building in the city of Beech Grove, Indiana. The toddler was holding a gun in the stairwell outside his home, with the door closed. At one point, the toddler even pointed the gun towards his face, and the great luck is that the gun was empty of bullets. Some of the neighbors witnessed the incident, which was recorded on a surveillance camera installed in the building and called the police, who arrived at the place and the apartment where the toddler lived with his father.
NEW: Neighbors who saw a toddler in diapers wandering around a Beech Grove, Indiana, apartment complex with a loaded handgun called police. The incident was caught on building cameras. The father – who lied that he didn’t own a gun – was arrested. #unread https://t.co/FPpHFNi4rn pic.twitter.com/UGic373G4L
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 15, 2023
The father of the baby denied that the weapon belonged to him, and claimed that his cousin, who was staying with him at the time, was the owner of the weapon. His father also added that his wife is staying in a hospital and that he tried to stay with the child in order to take care of him, but his illness distracted him, while he put his hands on the weapon together. Despite the arguments of the 45-year-old father, he was arrested by the local police.
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