A nine-year old Canton, Mississippi child is in stable condition at the hospital after his two-year old sister found a loaded gun in the family truck and shot him in the head. Police say that the children’s parents had gone inside a home and had left the children in their truck unattended.

The Canton police chief said “[t]hrough our investigation, what we have found out so far is the daddy of the kids and mother just stopped here at the daddy’s mother’s house to go inside and visit for a minute, for a short period of time. And the kids were left in the truck and playing around and found the handgun.”  Child protective services were called to the home.

According to the report, the children’s parents are likely to face negligence charges.

Source:

Jordon Gray, David Kenney, “9-year-old Child Shot by 2-year-old Sibling after Gun Left in Car,” WMC5 (June 2, 2021).