A 6-year-old boy is fighting for his life after he was shot in the head inside a Nashville home Saturday afternoon, according to police. The child was rushed by ambulance to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in what officers described as “extremely critical” condition. The shooting happened while the boy was in his father’s care at a home on the 3100 block of Qualynn Drive, where officers later found a handgun on the living room floor.
Metro Nashville Police said the father told detectives he had been playing with his son, then fell asleep with a pistol in his pocket, information contained in an MNPD press release and reported by WSMV. Detectives are still sorting out exactly how the gun went off and have not said whether any criminal charges are likely or when a decision might come…