by Bob Walsh
This is one of those stories that, except for the tragedy involved, a normal, reasonable person would be inclined to laugh at as being so incredibly stupid that no one in their right mind would believe it.
It happened Sunday in Memphis, TN. The cops showed up at the house about 8 p.m.. There was a report that someone had fired shots into the house. When the cops were there they heard another gunshot from inside the house. It seems that the four-year old in the house had just been shot by the three-year old. The kid was only hit in the arm and is likely to make a full recovery.
Allegedly when the original shots fired incident happened grandmamma opened up her lock box, retrieved her handgun and pumped a few rounds into the ground in front of the house in order to discourage further incoming fire. Allegedly she then returned the gun to the lock box but did not actually lock it.
The cops now think that she in fact put the gun down in plain sight and while she was talking to the cops the second shooting took place in which the rugrat was shot. Someone, presumably granny, is asserting that the kid dropped the gun and it fired accidentally, hitting the brother. That isn't bloody likely.
Granny is now in custody for felony child abuse, neglect and stupidity. (Actually there is no criminal charge of felony stupid in Tennessee. That doesn't mean that there shouldn't be.)
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