At a virtual arraignment in New York City on Thursday, prosecutors described a gun accident in a Bronx apartment and its consequences:

“The defendant carelessly assumed the firearm was unloaded and discharged the firearm, causing a bullet to strike a sleeping child in the abdomen, ripping through her torso and exiting her body through her shoulder, bruising her liver.”

Jayshienm Daniels  is charged with “assault, gun ownership, reckless endangerment and threatening the well-being of a child.”  He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.  The incident occurred on September 23. 

The child was sleeping on an air mattress in the living room at the time of the accident.  Her mother originally told police that a stranger had stormed the apartment and shot the child.

Daniels was ordered held on $150,000 bond.

Source:

Rebecca Rosenberg and Tina Moore, “Ex-con Accidentally Shot Girlfriend’s Young Daughter in Stomach: Prosecutors,” New York Post (October 15, 2020).