TERRELL, Texas -- A Terrell man has been charged with making a firearm accessible to a child after the man's three-year-old daughter accidentally shot her younger sister.
TERRELL, Texas -- A Terrell man has been charged with making a firearm accessible to a child after the man's three-year-old daughter accidentally shot her younger sister.
Terrell Police Department Captain A.D. Sansom says 25-year-old Elroy Caleb Middleton of Terrell, Texas, was arrested on a class A misdemeanor warrant for making a firearm accessible to a child which resulted in serious bodily injury. The arrest was made yesterday at approximately 4 p.m.
On September 6, 2016, Middleton was conducting business at Southwestern Christian College just feet away from his truck where the three-year-old gained access to a loaded 9mm handgun and inadvertently discharged it — striking her 22-month-old sister in the upper left shoulder near the clavicle.
“The investigation revealed that he, the father, left the children unattended in the vehicle where the weapon was loaded and unsecure, and the older child obtained the weapon and inadvertently discharged it causing injury the 22 month old child,” stated Sansom.
"The bullet entered and exited the child, then struck the interior door and exited through and out the right rear passenger door of the Dodge pickup," Sansom said in a press release earlier this month.
The infant was transported by helicopter to a Dallas-area hospital where she was initially in an Intensive Care Unit. She was removed from ICU a couple days after the shooting and is recovering well, according to Sansom.
Elroy’s bond was set at $3,000.
