Pennsylvania father charged after 2-year-old son shoots himself

A Southeast Pennsylvania antheral was arrested and charged Wednesday aft an probe recovered his  2-year-old lad changeable himself with an unsecured and unattended firearm, officials said.

Luis Marin, 34, is accused of leaving his loaded firearm connected his furniture and wrong scope of his young son, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and Pottstown Police Chief Mick said Thursday successful a associated statement.

The kid past grabbed the firearm and changeable himself causing injuries that included breached ribs, a fractured scapula and harm to his near lung,

The incidental occurred connected May 15 astatine Marin’s residence successful Pottstown, successful Montgomery County, immoderate 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

According to investigators, conscionable earlier the shooting, Marin went into his chamber to drawback a crossbody bag, which usually holds his 2 handguns and receptor protection, to lend to his nephew.

After emptying the container connected his furniture and handing it to his nephew, helium began playing with his phone. That’s erstwhile helium heard a gunshot and realized his lad had fired the weapon, prosecutors said.

The boy’s mother, who’d conscionable arrived home, drove Marin and their lad to Lehigh Valley Hospital.

The kid suffered superior injuries but survived.

“There was besides a pain people and stippling connected the boy’s skin, indicative of the firearm being pressed against his tegument oregon successful precise adjacent interaction erstwhile the weapon was fired,” the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office said successful a quality release.

Marin was arrested Wednesday connected charges of endangering the payment of a kid and recklessly endangering different person. His bail was acceptable astatine $50,000 unsecured with the proviso that nary firearms beryllium kept successful the home.

“This shooting is simply a frightening reminder to parents that children, adjacent precise young children, tin and bash find unsecured firearms successful a home, and their inclination is to play with them,” Steele said successful a statement. “Thankfully, this 2-year-old lad survived the shooting.”

Marin is owed backmost successful tribunal for a preliminary proceeding connected Oct. 8.