CINCINNATI (CINCINNATI ENQUIRER) -A Northern Kentucky father kept a handgun to protect himself and his family. He sometimes stored the loaded gun in an unlocked dresser drawer in the same room where his children slept at their Covington apartment, according to our media partners at the Cincinnati Enquirer.
On a January afternoon in 2024, Tashaun Adams’ 3-year-old son got into the drawer, took out the gun and shot his 2-year-old brother.
Khalil Adams died at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center from a gunshot wound to the chest. His older brother told police at the scene, “Daddy’s gun is in the drawer,” according to a criminal complaint.
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Tashaun Adams, now 23, and the boys’ mother, 25-year-old Selena Farrell, were convicted on April 17 of charges related to Khalil’s death at the end of a four-day trial in Kenton County Circuit Court.
They were both found guilty of reckless homicide. Farrell was separately convicted of abandoning a minor. Prosecutors sought convictions for murder. It’s a rare instance of parents being held criminally responsible for their child fatally shooting another…