A 26-year-old man in New Mexico is accused of letting an 8-year-old girl shoot herself, allegedly leaving his unsecured handgun on a kitchen counter, where the child found the firearm and put a bullet through both her legs.
Police took Isaiah Richard Chavez into custody and charged him with one count each of child abuse and negligently making a firearm accessible to a minor without great bodily harm, court records show.
Officers with the Albuquerque Police Department responded at about 6 a.m. on April 27 to a home in the 6500 block of Basket Weaver Ave. NW regarding a report of a child suffering a gunshot wound, according to a report from Albuquerque Raw, citing the criminal complaint…