(WWJ) — A 22-year-old Detroit man has been charged with shooting a 7-year-old boy in Inkster last month.
Announcing the charges Monday, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Antwon Tyree Williams was arraigned on Aug. 7 on six felony counts, including discharge in a building causing injury.
It happened around 12:30 a.m. on July 15, according to the prosecutor’s office. Inkster police officers responding to an apartment at the Dearborn View Apartments found the young boy with a gunshot wound to his chest.
Officers rushed him to the hospital, where he was treated for his injuries.
Williams was allegedly handling a handgun and it fired, hitting the boy in the chest. The prosecutor’s office did not release any other details about the incident, including if Williams is related to the victim or if he lived at the apartment it happened in.
Williams is also facing charges of assault with intent to do great bodily harm, careless discharge causing injury and three counts of felony firearm.