A 2-year-old boy in North Carolina is expected to survive after shooting himself with his father’s gun over the weekend.
Randolph
County deputies said that the toddler found the handgun in his parents’
room at their home just outside Asheboro around 2 p.m. on Saturday. The
boy put the gun in his mouth and fired it.
According
to WGHP, the boy was listed in critical condition Brenner Children’s
Hospital in Winston-Salem on Sunday, but was expected to live.
“The
bullet missed all the vital arteries there in the neck in the head and
also missed the spinal cords, so I said it’s a miracle the child is
still with us,” Randolph County Sheriff’s Office Captain Derrick Hill
explained to WGHP.
A neighbor told the station that “the good Lord was looking after him.”
The
sheriff’s and district attorney’s offices were considering whether to
charge the parents with leaving the firearm unattended.
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