Post by Logan on Apr 21, 2016 22:24:29 GMT -6
A 2-year-old boy died Wednesday after he shot himself with a handgun he found in his mother's purse, police said.
The 23-year-old mother "had momentarily stepped away," police said, when the child, Kiyan Shelton, climbed to a kitchen counter.
Kiyan removed a pistol from his mother's purse and shot himself about 9 p.m. in a northwest-side home in the 5200 block of Alameda Road, near 52nd Street and West Kessler Boulevard.
Officers arrived and found the boy with a gunshot wound to the shoulder. The child was taken in critical condition to Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, where he later died.
Read more: www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/04/20/2-year-old-dies-self-inflicted-gunshot-would-northwest-side-police-confirm/83317528/
The 23-year-old mother "had momentarily stepped away," police said, when the child, Kiyan Shelton, climbed to a kitchen counter.
Kiyan removed a pistol from his mother's purse and shot himself about 9 p.m. in a northwest-side home in the 5200 block of Alameda Road, near 52nd Street and West Kessler Boulevard.
Officers arrived and found the boy with a gunshot wound to the shoulder. The child was taken in critical condition to Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, where he later died.
Read more: www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2016/04/20/2-year-old-dies-self-inflicted-gunshot-would-northwest-side-police-confirm/83317528/