2-year-old shoots through ceiling into family’s apartment while they eat, VA cops say
A 2-year-old found a gun and fired a shot into a family’s home as they ate dinner in Virginia, officials said.
The family was eating at their home on Fern Oak Circle in Stafford County around 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4, when they heard a gunshot and saw a bullet tear through their ceiling and land in a hallway, Maj. Shawn Kimmitz with the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office said in a video posted to Facebook.
No one was injured, according to the sheriff’s office.
Deputies responded and found that a 2-year-old in the apartment upstairs had “gained access to a firearm” and fired a shot through the floor and into the home below, Kimmitz said.
A 20-year-old man was charged with felony child cruelty “at allowing access of a firearm to a child,” Kimmitz said. He is being held on a $2,500 bond. The sheriff’s office did not say if he’s related to the child.
“We would encourage anyone who has a firearm to lock that firearm up,” Kimmitz said.
No other information had been released as of Sunday, Aug. 7.
Stafford County is about 70 miles north of Richmond.
