6-year-old girl, 5-year-old boy injured after accidental shooting in Clare
By Andy Hoag | ahoag@mlive.com
November 01, 2016 at 10:49 AM
Link: http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2016/11/6-year-old_girl_5-year-old_boy.html
CLARE, MI — Two young children were injured when one of them accidentally fired a handgun inside a vehicle, police say.
A 6-year-old girl and her 5-year-old boy relative both suffered gunshot wounds about 10:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 31, outside a home on Schoolcrest, said Clare Police Chief Brian Gregory.
A biological grandmother of one of the children was picking the children up from the home of their aunt and uncle, Gregory said. The grandmother schools the children at her home, the chief said.
When the boy entered the grandmother's van, he picked up a 9mm pistol resting in the door of the van and accidentally fired it, Gregory said. The bullet went through the boy's hand and struck the girl in the thigh, Gregory said.
Both children were hospitalized, and Gregory said he expects them to be released Tuesday.
Gregory said the gun is registered to a family member and that the grandmother said she did not know it was in the vehicle.
"It's all a family tragedy," he said. "It's just a neglect on the person's end for forgetting where he left it."
Gregory would not release the name of the individual to whom the gun is registered. The police department will submit its reports to the Clare County Prosecutor's Office for review on Friday, Gregory said.
"Whether you're a CPL holder or not, when you're in possession of a handgun, you need to know where it is," Gregory said. "All the time."
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Clare children injured in shooting expected to be released from hospital
By Susan Field, sfield@michigannewspapers.com
Link: http://www.macombdaily.com/article/M...NEWS/161109872
Posted: 11/03/16, 11:04 AM EDT | Updated: 13 hrs ago
Two Clare children were expected to be released from a Saginaw hospital Tuesday after one accidentally shot himself and the other on their way to home schooling Monday.
The unnamed 5-year-old boy and 6-year-old girl were first treated at Mid-Michigan Medical Center-Clare on Monday before being transferred to Covenant Hospital for treatment, Clare Police Chief Brian Gregory said.
The 6-year-old’s grandmother was picking up a group of children from a relative’s house in the 500 block of Schoolcrest to take them to home schooling when the 5-year-old, her foster child, found a 9 mm handgun in a door panel of the van the woman was driving, Gregory said, noting that the woman didn’t know the weapon was in the vehicle.
The boy accidentally discharged the gun, shooting through the palm of his hand and into the girl’s upper thigh, Gregory said.
The gun is owned by one of the woman’s sons, who has a permit to carry a concealed weapon, Gregory said.
The incident remains under investigation, and the Clare County Sheriff’s Department and Mobile Medical Response assisted at the scene.
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