LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — A child was hospitalized after sustaining a gunshot wound to their face, leading police to file charges against a Lancaster County man.
Christopher Elliott, 50, of Denver, was accused Thursday of not securing dozens of firearms in the office of his Denver home after an 11-year-old was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the face on Feb. 24, the charges filed by East Cocalico Police state.
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When Elliott called EMS, just before 8 a.m., police say he reported the child fell from a bunk bed and hurt his head. However, after a CT scan at the hospital, doctors saw bullet fragments in the child’s head, resulting in them being sent to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) for further treatment…