A 1-year-old boy is in the hospital after getting his hands on a gun in his mother’s home and shooting himself.
News Center 7′s Brandon Lewis spoke to investigators and will have the latest information LIVE on News Center 7 at 11.
Montgomery County Sheriff Rob Streck confirmed the investigation moved a lot slower than it should have because first responders did not get the correct story right away.
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The child was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, but the paramedics who rushed him there didn’t get the true story of how he’d been hurt.
“I don’t know, I was asleep and I guess he fell and hit his head on the corner of the dresser and his head is leaking bad,” a 911 caller told dispatchers.
That 911 call had paramedics rushing to an apartment in the Creekside Townhomes off North Dixie Drive where they discovered a badly injured little boy.
The sheriff’s office said the two adult females in the home insisted the child was hurt in an accidental fall.